District judge’s death: Probe team to collect evidence

Saturday, September 10, 2011: The Crime Branch, investigating the circumstances leading to the suicide of Alapuzha principal sessions judge P K Baburaj, has sought permission to take the statements of two judges of the Kerala High Court.
Court sources said that crime branch officials had sent a request in this regard by post and they had been informed that the Court Registry can neither permit nor decline it.
The officials have been asked to contact the two judges and seek their permission, they said.
Alapuzha Crime branch had sought to take the statements of Justice S Sirijagan, who is in-charge of Alapuzha district and Justice Pious Kuriakose, President, Kerala Judicial Academy.
Baburaj had been found hanging at his residence on July 2 this year.

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