Fake drug case: HC grants bail to second accused

The Kerala Excessive Courtroom has granted bail to Liviya Jose of Kalady, who had been arraigned because the second accused within the case by which she was charged with conspiring with one other particular person to falsely implicate Chalakudy native Sheela Sunny in a narcotic drug case.

The case was registered by the Excise Vary Workplace, Chalakudy. It pertains to the duo allegedly conspiring and inserting stamps that regarded like LSD stamps in Ms. Sunny’s scooter, following which false info was given to Excise personnel who detected it and charged a case towards Ms. Sunny. On chemical evaluation, it was discovered that the stamps weren’t of any prohibited narcotic drug. However by that point Ms. Sunny had undergone 72 days in custody. Ms. Jose was arrested in June and has been in custody since then.

Ms. Jose’s counsel claimed earlier than the courtroom that the grounds for the arrest weren’t communicated to her or her relations on the time of the arrest. Furthermore, the stamps weren’t of any narcotic medication.

Rebutting this, the general public prosecutor mentioned that the grounds of arrest had been communicated to her on the time of the arrest in June.

Granting bail to her, a Bench of Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas mentioned that the 21-year-old had already undergone two months in custody. Though the allegations towards her are very critical, the primary accused had already been launched on bail on discovering that the grounds for arrest weren’t communicated to him as per regulation.

The courtroom rapped Excise personnel and mentioned that they had arrested Ms. Sunny and arraigned her as an accused, with out conducting any impartial analysis or appraisal in regards to the seized materials.