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New Delhi, Aug 19: A Mathura court docket has dismissed the UP STF’s plea to interrogate alleged PFI activist-cum-Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan, dealing with terror costs, about some incriminating doc present in his Delhi residence, information company PTI reported.
Extra District and Periods Decide Anil Kumar Pandey rejected the Particular Job Power plea, saying that the accused can’t be allowed to be interrogated once more after the chargesheet within the case has already been filed.
Kappan is presently lodged in judicial custody in a terror case, involving instigating unrest and funding it after the demise of a Hathras lady, set ablaze after her rape and brutalisation, PTI additionally reported.
“The prosecution’s request at a stage when the charge-sheet has already been submitted within the court docket can’t be accepted and deserves rejection,” ADSJ Pandey mentioned in his order on Monday.
In its plea to the court docket, the STF had mentioned Kappan’s Delhi residence was raided on November 11 final 12 months, throughout which a booklet of the outlawed terror outfit SIMMI with some handwritten remarks on its was discovered.
The booklet had been despatched to the Agra forensic laboratory for matching Kappan’s handwriting to that on the e book however the laboratory in its report on June 21 this 12 months has mentioned the 2 handwritings didn’t match, the STF’s plea mentioned.
Accordingly, the accused wanted to be interrogated concerning the booklet and the handwritten remarks on it, it mentioned.
Defence counsel Madhuban Datt Chaturvedi mentioned the STF had sought to interrogate Kappan on a problem forming a part of a beforehand performed and concluded probe.
It was not about any matter for additional or further investigation, he mentioned.
After submitting the charge-sheet within the court docket, the investigation on any level performed earlier, can’t be allowed beneath part 173 (8) of the Legal Process Code, he mentioned.
(PTI)
Story first revealed: Thursday, August 19, 2021, 11:08 [IST]
