Kochi Police on Wednesday carried out searches at the residence of the judge whose son is an accused in a hit-and-run case. The searches were carried out at the judge’s flat on the directions of the Kerala High Court, and the police have collected CCTV footage and other evidence. An ACP of the Crime Branch, which is now heading the probe, and a team from the Photographic Bureau were at the flat for the inspection.
The searches came a day after police made the serving judge an accused after a car allegedly driven by his 17-year-old son hit and killed a scooterist at Cheranalloor in Kochi.
The victim’s family has been demanding the arrest of the judge and his son. The family members are also planning to move the high court to seek the judge’s removal. The searches came a day after police made the Additional District and Sessions Judge an accused after a car allegedly driven by his 17-year-old son hit and killed a scooterist at Cheranalloor in Kochi. Following protests by the victim’s family outside the Cheranalloor police station, the teenager was apprehended again and booked under Section 105 of the BNS (culpable homicide not amounting to murder). Read | Reels Wiped, 3 Fled: Victim’s Family Alleges Cover-Up In Kerala Judge Son’s Mercedes Crash The victim’s daughter and her brother alleged the judge and the police acted in concert to shield the minor and suppress the presence of three other passengers in the car at the time of impact.
The judge, who serves in a court in Irinjalakuda in Thrissur district, was arraigned under Section 199A of the Motor Vehicles Act, which holds a juvenile’s guardian or the registered owner of the vehicle liable for an offence committed by the minor under the Act, police said.
He was produced before the Juvenile Justice Board, which granted him bail.
