THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Dismissing the further investigation report in the sensational Kaviyoor case and observing it as incomplete, improper and illogical, the CBI court here on Monday ordered a fresh investigation into the case.
This is the fourth time the court is dismissing further investigation report, conducted on the basis of a petition by K I Unnikrishnan Namboothiri, brother of Anagha’s father Narayanan Namboothiri and ‘Crime’ editor T P Nandakumar.
In the petitions, they had alleged that the further investigation report was farce and calculatedly intended to save some persons. In all the three reports, the CBI had concluded that Anagha, the 15-year-old girl, might have been raped by her father.
Anagha, her father Narayanan Namboothiri, 40, mother Sreedevi, 35, sister Akhila, 8, and brother Akshay, 6, were found dead at their house at Kaviyoor in Pathanamthitta district on September 28, 2004.
The incident was linked to the Kiliroor sex scandal in which another teenager, Sari S Nair, had died. Lata Nair, a culprit in the Kiliroor case, was a family friend of Namboothiri and had sought asylum at his house to evade arrest in the Kiliroor case. She was also the prime accused in this case too for pushing the family into debt trap. While directing further investigation, Judge R Reghu held that the investigating officer arrived at the finding that she might have been raped by her father, based on circumstantial evidence. However, the judge said that the officer while arriving at his conclusion had forgotten the rudimentary principles of arriving at a conclusion on the basis of the circumstantial chain of evidence without missing links and in that case the missing links were more prominent.
He also observed that the investigating officer had not taken into account the crucial statement of Anagha’s classmate Remya Rajan that the former was close to at least five youngsters.