VIJAYAWADA: The State government in all likelihood will refer the names of the police and forensic laboratory officers who handled the investigation of B Pharm student Ayesha Meera's murder in 2007 to the apex committee headed by the home secretary for identifying and nailing the officers responsible for framing P Satyam Babu, which led to him spending eight years behind bars for a crime he had not committed.
After a Cabinet meeting at Velagapudi on Thursday, information and public relations minister Kalava Srinivasulu, said since the High Court had issued a direction, the State government would follow it. "The State government will refer the case to the committee if the High Court has directed it," he said. But, however, pointed out that the Cabinet did not discuss the High Court verdict on the murder case.
In fact, the State government had constituted the apex committee on February 14 this year in pursuance of the directions of the Supreme Court to the Home Departments of all states. The departments were asked to formulate a procedure for identifying erring investigating and prosecuting officials for failure of prosecution on account of sheer negligence or because of culpable lapses, and take action against in accordance with law.
The other members of the committee are the law secretary, director general of police, director of prosecutions and additional secretary or special secretary to Home Department.
Some of the officers involved in the investigation of the case are:
Police constable(Ibrahimpatnam), ASI (Ibrahimpatnam)J Srinivasa Rao, ASI(Ibrahimpatnam) K Venkateswarlu, SI (Ibrahimpatnam) G Srinivasa Rao, S Inspector (Ibrahimpatnam) Murali Mohan, constable/ dog handler D Koteswara, ACP West Zone Law and Order (Vijayawada) L Vijaya Kumar, ACP Central Zone (Vijayawada) N Ramachandramurthy, ACB West Zone (Vijayawada) P Prakasa Rao, autopsy doctor Dr G Sivaramireddy, joint director FSL A Venkataramana Reddy, handwriting expert K Vani Prasada Rao, DNA and fingerprint expert N Venkanna and foot print expert D Venkateswarlu.