Fresh probe into suspicious death of youngster

Video clippings of torture sent to cyber forensic team

The District Crime Branch has started a fresh probe into the suspicious death of a 16-year-old student from Narikkatteri in Nadapuram in the wake of noticing two separate video clips in which the victim was reportedly found undergoing torture by his own elder brother. The video clippings secured by the squad from social media are now with the cyber forensic team. A Deputy Superintendent of Police who heads the probe has recorded the statement of a few local residents who earlier complained that it was a murder. Though the investigation team recently quizzed the victim’s father, he was found ignorant of the new developments, police sources said. It was on May 17 last year that the body of K. Abdul Azeez, a student from MIM Higher Secondary School, Perode, was found hanging in his house. The case was then recorded as an unnatural death by the local police under section 174 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC). Though the case was later handed over to the Crime Branch following suspicion that it was a murder, they ruled out the possibility in the absence of any circumstantial evidence.