Sampath accused offered Rs 3 crore bribe: CBI officer
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An accused in the Sampath custodial death case offered Rs 3 crore to the CBI sleuths to derail the probe against top police officials, a member of the investigating team has claimed in a new twist to the sensational case.
The ‘revelation’ was made by K.K. Rajan, inspector, who said in a confidential letter to the CBI Special Director that Binu Ittoop, the 17th accused, offered the money. Ittoop wanted the CBI to exonerate DySP C.K. Ramachandran Nair and two IPS officers, Muhammed Yasin and Vijaya Sakhare, the 15th and 16th accused, respectively, he said. Rajan had been transferred to Guwahati in connection with the suicide of ASP Haridath, who headed the probe team, in a recent twist to the case.
“The issue was verbally informed to the JD CBI Chennai Zone on the first crime meeting in the presence of V.A. Mohanan, the then SP of CBI TVM, and Shyni IPS the then SP of CBI Kochi.
No action was taken on this but we (Unnikrishnan and Rajan) were unduly harassed, and we were threatened of registering false cases against us if we proceeded against the senior officers of Kerala police,” the report, which is in possession of Deccan Chronicle said.
Strangely, Binu Ittoop, a close ally of C.K. Raamchandran Nair, has already been charged with offering Rs 10,000 as first installment of a bribe to Sathyabhama, wife of accused Kankaraj, for not revealing the alleged custodial torture before a magistrate’s court in Palakkad.
Rajan sent the letter as part of his representation seeking a directive to expunge the negative remarks made in his annual performance assessment report (APAR) by some of his senior colleagues.
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