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The Court noted that the CBI on 05-04-2024 issued a notification announcing to take over the investigation and registered a First Information Report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">A second-year student studying in College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences in Pookode, Wayanad was found hanging in the hostel, due to alleged torture and ragging.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">Initially, the reason for death was registered as unnatural cause, eventually as the investigation moved forward additional offences were included, like- abetment of suicide, criminal conspiracy and provisions under the Kerala Prohibition of Ragging Act, 1998.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Court noted that the matter had serious repercussions and that the State Government had immediately decided to handover investigation to the CBI and a notification to that effect was also issued, however, the files were not forwarded immediately to the Central Government and the investigation was delayed. Hence, the Court on 05-04-2024 had directed the Central Government for issuing appropriate order under Section <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001543691\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">5<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0002935504\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Delhi Special Police Establishment Act, 1946<\/a> and take immediate action.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Source:<\/span> Press<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">A second-year student studying in College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences in Pookode, Wayanad was found hanging in the hostel due to alleged torture and ragging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67011,"featured_media":316393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1188,2],"tags":[10481,34698,67423,59043,2523,67424,2752],"class_list":["post-319806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hot_off_the_press","category-news","tag-cbi","tag-central-bureau-of-investigation","tag-college-of-veterinary-and-animal-sciences","tag-justice-bechu-kurian-thomas","tag-Kerala_High_Court","tag-ragging","tag-Suicide"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kerala High Court closes the Veterinary Student&#039;s death case | SCC Times.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kerala High Court closes the Veterinary Student&#039;s death case after CBI takes over probe\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2024\/04\/09\/kerala-high-court-closes-veterinary-students-death-case-investigation-cbi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CBI takes over probe and registers FIR; 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