THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The ‘outsiders’ whom the police say accompanied Jishnu Pranoy’s mother Mahija and relatives to the police headquarters are the ones who triggered tension by provoking the police officers, according to the final report prepared by Thiruvananthapuram Range IG Manoj Abraham.
The report, prepared after inquiring into the alleged police excesses on Jishnu Prannoy’s mother and relatives, will be submitted on Saturday as state police chief Loknath Behera is out of the station. On Thursday, a preliminary report was submitted by the IG before the DGP.
In the final report, Abraham says the group of outsiders including activist K M Shahjahan, SUCI leaders Shajarkhan and his wife Mini Shajarkhan, Sreekumar and self-styled godman Himaval Bhadrananda had come to the police headquarters ‘intentionally’ to create tension.
The report also says no action should be taken against any of the police officers, including Cantonment AC K E Baiju and Museum SI G Sunil, as it has been proved they had only removed the protesters from that spot rather than ‘assaulting’ them. Abraham told ‘Express’ the officers can’t be charged as they had only tried to control a law and order situation. “The evidence collected from the visuals shot by various media also underlines this fact. Hence, there is no point in blaming the police officers,” he said.
The report says the real culprits behind the entire episode are in judicial custody. “The outsider group intentionally created disorder when the police blocked the protestors and tried to remove Jishnu’s family from the spot.
Shajarkhan also had a role in arranging accommodation for Mahija and relatives in the capital. He and other SUCI leaders came to the headquarters even though they were not permitted. Shahjahan and Himaval Bhadrananda later intruded into the group when Mahija reached near the gate of the headquarters,” said Abraham.
His final report also quotes a medical report which said there were no external injuries on any of the protesters. Meanwhile, the Thiruvananthapuram judicial first class magistrate postponed the hearing on the petition of the police seeking the custody of the accused for further interrogation to Monday.