Tamil Nadu police took away digital diary

By Our Staff Reporter

PALAKKAD, FEB. 10. The top officials of the Tamil Nadu police took away the controversial digital diary from among the things seized from the Veerappan gang after they were shot at by the Special Task Force (STF) at Chemmanthymala in the Walayar forests of Kerala on February 2.

It is learnt that the diary, along with other things, was handed over to the Walayar police on the morning of February 3 by the STF. But on the same night, top officials of the Tamil Nadu police came to the Walayur station in search of the diary. As there was no Kerala police official present, policemen on duty refused to hand it over. Later in the night, top-level discussions were held and the diary was handed over to the Tamil Nadu police. When the whole operation was going on, eyewitnesses, including a pressperson, were present outside. In fact, the pressperson had gone to the station to get information about the diary since both the Palakkad SP and the Coimbatore SP had told newspersons that there was a digital diary among the things left behind by the gang. The Walayar police had asked the Tamil Nadu police to return the diary and the cellphone taken away from the spot by the STF. In fact, they planned to send a formal notice in this regard. Since the STF personnel involved in the firing deposed before the police yesterday and today, the decision was withheld.

The delay in getting back the confiscated property prevented the Walayar police from filing the FIR in the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court of Palakkad along with the `mazhar' and property recovered from the site.

The FIR should have been filed within three days of the incident but since it is now more than a week, the Walayar police would have to explain to the court the reason for the delay.

The STF has also handed over to the Walayar police, a transistor and camera. Meanwhile, in a search conducted at the site today, the Walayar police, accompanied by the STF personnel involved in the incident, found four empty cartridges and five pairs of chappals.

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