Vengaivayal human faeces case: Filed charge sheet against three persons, CB-CID informs Madras HC
The Hindu
The Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID) on Friday (January 24, 2025) informed the Madras High Court of having completed the probe in the 2022 Vengaivayal case — wherein human faeces was found in an overhead tank supplying water to the Scheduled Caste (SC) residents of the village in Pudukottai — and filed a charge sheet against three persons on January 20, 2025.
The Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID) on Friday (January 24, 2025) informed the Madras High Court of having completed the probe in the 2022 Vengaivayal case — wherein human faeces was found in an overhead tank supplying water to the Scheduled Caste (SC) residents of the village in Pudukottai — and filed a charge sheet against three persons on January 20, 2025.
Appearing before the first Division Bench of Chief Justice K.R. Shriram and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy, Additional Advocate General J. Ravindran said, the CB-CID sleuths had examined 127 witnesses and 57 documents before identifying the three accused and filing a final report.
The judges asked the AAG to make the submissions in the form of an affidavit, by afternoon, so that necessary orders could be passed on a couple of public interest litigation (PIL) petitions, which had sought a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the incident.
It was in December 2022 that human faeces was found floating inside an overhead tank that supplied drinking water to the Scheduled Caste (SC) residents of Vengaivayal village in Pudukottai district. The incident sent shockwaves across the State and was condemned in strong terms.
The investigation into the matter was transferred from the local police to the CB-CID. But as there was a delay in solving the case, PIL petitioners K. Rajkamal and Marx Raveendran alias V. Raveendran had approached the court in 2023 for further transfer of the probe to the CBI.
After obtaining multiple adjournments from the High Court, the CB-CID finally claimed it had achieved a breakthrough and filed a charge sheet before the jurisdictional magistrate concerned.
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