The judge father of the minor accused in the Kochi hit-and-run case has secured anticipatory bail from the court. This came after he moved court seeking anticipatory bail on being made an accused in the case where a Mercedes car allegedly driven by his 17-year-old son hit and killed a scooterist at Cheranalloor in Kochi.
The judge has been made an accused in the case where a Mercedes car allegedly driven by his 17-year-old son hit and killed a scooterist at Cheranalloor in Kochi.
“Why is his arrest required? He is a judicial officer. He will co-operate with the investigation,” the court observed. The judge had moved for bail a day after his home was searched by the Crime Branch officials. The judge claimed that the police had already seized phones, laptops, a motorbike and the car from his house, and that there was no ground for custodial interrogation. The judge’s plea came amid calls for his arrest from the victim’s family, who had alleged his collusion with the cops to save the minor accused. 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.
Read | Reels Wiped, 3 Fled: Victim’s Family Alleges Cover-Up In Kerala Judge Son’s Mercedes Crash The court further questioned the cops on need for further interrogation. 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).
The Additional District and Sessions Judge, who serves in a court in Irinjalakuda in Thrissur district of Kerala, 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.
