Premkumar admits Police Action is Retaliatory!

Sankarraman Murder Case: Why a case against Auditor Gurumurthy? – Superintendent Premkumar interview

Chennai, Feb 1 “During interrogation, Auditor Gurumurthy has given wrong information to divert the case [investigation] and he has refused to tell us about the real culprits and he has also given us false information” – Additional SP Shaktivel has complained to Kanchi First Judicial Magistrate.

[Shaktivel] also gave the interrogation video to the Magistrate, who viewed it. Then, he ordered the police to file an FIR. On that basis, Vishnu Kanchi police have registered a case against Gurumurthy under Sections 176 (Preventing a Government Officer from doing his duty), 179 (refusing to answer a Government official’s question), 191 (giving false information to help criminals) and 193 (punishment for those who aid the criminal in 191). Under these sections, they [police] have registered the case.

Regarding this, the Kanchi District SP Premkumar said: “When Auditor Gurumurthy appeared for police interrogation, he said that Rajini and Kathiravan are not the criminals. Moreover, he also sent a check for Rs1000 to the Special Police team to make him a copy of the video and send it to him. He also said it was not legal to call him for interrogation and he sent me a lawyer notice demanding an apology!

After this, we [Special Police] complained to the 1st Judicial Magistrate about the false information he gave to the police. Finding a basis for the complaint, the Magistrate ordered the Vishnu Kanchi police to register the case.

In this case, we have included 4 witnesses, including the editor of the journal that published Gurumurthy’s article and the administrator [of that journal].”

This is what [Premkumar] said.

We got information that Auditor Gurumurthy is at present in Mumbai. So, the Special Police have rushed to Mumbai* to arrest him.

In regards to this [case], Gurumurthy yesterday released a statement: “The Special Police Team has indulged in intimidatory tactics”, he complained. They were spreading wrong rumors about the opinions he expressed during the interrogation. “So I am not going to back down from my decision to file a case against them.”

In the meanwhile, his lawyer Mahesh Jethmalani has sent a letter to Police Inspector Mohanavelu, in which he said Gurumurthy [was] not in Tamil Nadu. He [was] returning to Chennai on the 26th. If police needed to contact him, they could use Gurumurthy’s cell phone or they could contact him [Jethmalani].

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*[So, boys, who's got the keys to the Cessna?];)

[Editor notes: It is rather ironic that the TN Govt is charging Gurumurthy under Sec 176 and 178. These are the very sections of the Indian Evidence Act that would cover a State Govt's failure to respond to a notice from the NHRC.
Yet, according to press reports, the State of Tamil Nadu rejected that the NHRC had any authority under these sections to demand any answers from them!]