The children of a man who died in a road collision in Kochi staged a protest outside Cheranellore police station on Sunday night, alleging that the person responsible was allowed to leave before the family received the victim’s body after postmortem. Police, meanwhile, are reported to have recovered evidence showing that the car was speeding when the collision occurred.
The protest continued late into the night at the police station, with the victim’s son and daughter demanding action against those responsible for the accident and questioning why the alleged suspect was allowed to return home. Their account, reported by the Times of India, describes a confrontation over the police response after the death.
The victim’s daughter alleged that the person who killed her father had been permitted to walk out of the station. She questioned whether the handling of the case was influenced by the suspect’s family background, saying, “The reason is that my father runs a Thattukada while his father is a judge. Are there two ways of executing the law here?”
She also said that officers did not explain why the person involved had been allowed to leave. The siblings said they reached the station before the embers of their father’s funeral pyre had gone out, but felt that the police response lacked humanity. They said they would pursue the matter “to any extent” to obtain justice.
The protest was centred on two issues: the alleged release of the person involved in the collision and the evidence being gathered about the vehicle’s speed. The source reported that police had recovered evidence confirming that the car was speeding when the crash took place. The report did not specify the type of evidence recovered or state what charges had been filed.
The incident has placed the Cheranellore police station’s handling of the case under scrutiny. The available report records the family’s allegations and the police finding on speeding, but does not include a detailed response from senior officers addressing why the person was allowed to leave, whether an arrest was made later or what further action investigators planned.
The family’s protest continued into the night as they demanded action. Further clarity is expected from the police investigation, including the formal findings on the collision, the legal status of the person involved and the next steps based on the recovered evidence.
