Supreme Court sets aside Madras HC order directing arrest of TN police officer in abduction case

The Supreme Court on Thursday set aside a Madras High Court order directing the arrest of Tamil Nadu Additional Director General of Police HM Jayaram in a case pertaining to the abduction of a 17-year-old boy, Live Law reported.

The top court also transferred the investigation in the case to the state’s Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department. The Tamil Nadu government agreed to it.

Further, the Supreme Court urged the chief justice of the Madras High Court to transfer matters related to the abduction to a bench different from the one hearing Jayaram’s case, The Indian Express reported.

The Madras High Court had on June 16 ordered Jayaram’s arrest in a kidnapping case that also named Kilvaithinakuppam MLA Poovai M Jagan Moorthy as a suspect. The police officer claimed that he was subsequently taken into custody for about 24 hours, while the state government maintained that he had merely joined the investigation.

The case stems from a police complaint filed by one Lakshmi, whose elder son married a woman from Theni district against the wishes of her family. Fearing retaliation, the couple went into hiding. In a bid to trace them, members of the woman’s family, with the help of hired men, allegedly abducted Lakshmi’s younger son from their home.

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