Article by Hiral Vilas
Actress Jiah Khan’s mother, Rabbiya Khan wants to investigate reason of her daughter’s death was a suicidal death or a homicide. Bombay Court has transferred Jiah Khan’s case to Central Bureau of Investigation. Division bench comprising of Justice VM Kanade and Justice PD Kode did not note any fault with the investigation carried out by Juhu police, the judges thought it necessary to transfer the case to the central agency in order to probe to unearth the truth. Judges felt that Juhu Police has not conducted probe from an angle of possible murder thoroughly.
Her counsel, submitted that the investigation carried out by the local police was far from satisfactory and despite orders of the court they did not probe the angle of murder. Relying on reports of two forensic experts, he also claimed that the post mortem was not conducted properly, as it missed out a few injury marks on the body.The court criticised CBI for excuse of lack of manpower and logistical support for carrying out further investigation.”In a country having over 1 billion population, the CBI has the audacity to tell the court that they have only 11 officers,” the division bench said.”See the concern shown by the US (United States) administration towards death of their citizen (Jiah was a US national) and see the attitude of the CBI,” the judges said referring to the fact that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officers took out time to look into the papers of Jiah Khan case and even expressed willingness to carry out further investigation, and an officer attached to the embassy regularly attended the matter in high court.”You cannot shun your responsibility,” the judges said, adding, “An agency like the CBI cannot give reasons of logistics and mnpower to investigate cases. The judges expressed utter displeasure over the stand taken by the central agency saying, “Ultimately, it is the duty of the State to protect lives of citizens and to maintain law and order”.
