पूर्व डीजीपी तोमिन जे थाचंकरी ने 4 साल की सजा को चुनौती दी

Ex-DGP Tomin J Thachankary moves Kerala High Court against 4-year sentence

Former DGP Tomin J Thachankary has challenged his conviction and four-year sentence in the High Court. The appeal questions the evidence, calculations and handling of materials gathered during the probe.

Former DGP Tomin J Thachankary on Friday moved the High Court challenging his conviction and four-year sentence in a disproportionate assets case. A Vigilance Court had on Thursday sentenced him to four years' rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 30.84 lakh.

In his appeal, Thachankary said the conviction was unsustainable and illegal. He alleged there had been a gross misreading of the evidence and that the investigating officers had relied on incorrect calculations.

According to the petition, the FIR registered by the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau first covered assets allegedly amassed between January 1, 2003 and March 1, 2005, and was later extended to July 4, 2007.

It said searches were carried out at various premises on July 4, 2007, and documents were seized.

After the investigation, a final report was filed, and the case was later transferred between Vigilance courts before being taken up by the Vigilance Court in Kottayam in 2020.

The petition said the state government later ordered a further investigation after Thachankary complained that several items of his income had not been taken into account and that there were errors in the calculations made by the investigating officer.

The High Court later quashed that order, holding that the government could not direct such an investigation.

However, it allowed the investigating agency to use material collected during the further probe, the appeal said.

Thachankary alleged in his petition that none of those documents was produced before the trial court despite his application under Rule 19(4) of the Kerala Criminal Rules of Practice.

He also said that when he was questioned under Section 313 of the CrPC during the trial, he denied the incriminating circumstances and filed a further statement explaining what he claimed were errors in the calculations and the circumstances in which he was falsely implicated.

In his plea before the High Court, Thachankary has asked for his conviction and sentence to be set aside, maintaining that the case against him was based on wrongly assessed evidence and faulty calculations.

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