Sattankulam Police Station which was in the news recently for the custodial death of the father-son duo of P Jeyaraaj and J Fenix continued to hog limelight even after the arrest of the culprits on Thursday.
By Friday, the Madras High Court asked the revenue department which was managing the day-to-day affairs of the Station to hand it back to the police department.
The Revenue administration, led by the district collector, had taken over the police station last Monday following the direction of the Madras High Court to do so as a follow up to the complaint by the Judicial Magistrate who held the preliminary probe.
The Judicial Magistrate was threatened and insulted by the cops on duty when the former went to the Station for the probe.
The High Court expressed its displeasure when the Magistrate informed the Court what transpired at the Station and asked the revenue department to take control of the police station till the officials of the Crime Branch-Crime Investigation Department (CB-CID) took charge of the station and the probe.
The CB-CID which commenced its investigation on Tuesday arrested on Thursday four cops (an inspector, two sub-inspectors and a constable) in connection with the deaths of Jeyaraaj and Fenix.
Though initial reports said on Thursday that head constable Muthu Raj was arrested, he evaded the CB-CID net and escaped. He has been declared as ‘wanted’ by the CB-CID and two special teams have been deployed to arrest him.
According to a source in the intelligence department, this is the first time in recent history a police station had been handed over to the revenue department by a court order to prevent tampering of documents by the cops. The entire police force attached to the station has been transferred.