KOCHI: A day after the Kochi Metropolis police arrested Martin Joseph, who’s accused of raping and torturing a 27-year-old dressmaker after detaining her in a luxurious flat within the metropolis for almost a month, Metropolis Police Commissioner C Nagaraju on Friday admitted that there have been lapses on the police’s half in investigating the sensational case promptly.
He stated the police grew to become severe solely after the information hit the headlines. “Though we began an investigation into the case, we admit that we didn’t give a lot consideration to it earlier. Solely restricted assets had been used to search out the accused. However we got here to grasp the seriousness of the difficulty when the information concerning the case hit the headlines,” Nagaraju stated at a press convention.
He stated a department-level inquiry will probably be carried out to search out out the causes of delay in launching the investigation. “Regardless of the grave fees within the grievance, there have been some lapses on the a part of the officers in informing the highest officers. A group headed by ACP Ok P Philip will head the department-level inquiry. That is to forestall recurrence of such incidents sooner or later,” stated the commissioner.
He additionally added that every one authorized procedures have been initiated. “ There have been no procedural lapses within the case. We had been capable of cancel the bail when Martin approached the district court docket,” commissioner added. The police have drawn flak for his or her failure to arrest the prime accused within the case although the sufferer had filed the grievance on April 8. The case out of the blue got here below the highlight when images of the girl from Kannur with bruises throughout her physique surfaced on social media.
Regardless of it being a heinous crime, the police had sat on the grievance for nearly two months. The delay was attributed to the election obligation and lockdown, following a spike in Covid instances within the metropolis.
