MANGALURU: A Covid-19 restriction on number of employees allowed in workplaces including in government offices has come as blessing in disguise for Aditya Rao, accused of planting an IED at Mangaluru International Airport on January 20. With crucial government nod to file the charge sheet before jurisdictional court yet to come, the trial is expected to start only after that. In the interim, Rao will find a voluminous charge sheet awaiting him.
Charged under Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) among other things, it is the delay in obtaining nod under this important Act that has prevented Mangaluru City Police from taking forward their probe against Rao to its logical end in the court. “We have completed our investigation into the case and will file the charge sheet once the home department gives its nod to file charge sheet under UAPA,” city police chief P S Harsha told TOI.
The investigation that K U Belliappa, assistant commissioner of police, Mangaluru City North sub-division carried out churned out a single volume charge sheet that is more than 1000 pages. "It has covered every aspect of the crime that Rao sought to commit at the airport including how he procured the materials used to make the IED online, how he learnt to assemble them, his reasons for choosing MIA. Investigation is professional," Harsha said.
Presently in judicial custody, Harsha said the city police is also contemplating subjecting Rao to a brain mapping test. “Let us see (about the test),” Harsha said, lending credence to what sources in department of prisons said about this test on Rao now remaining pending. Police has obtained nod from deputy commissioner to present charge sheet under Explosives Substances Act and obtained a 90-day extension from court to complete the investigation.
The charge sheet will be initially presented before the sixth Judicial Magistrate First Class court after which the principal district and sessions court judge is expected to take a call on either hearing the case or allocating it to a subordinate additional district and sessions court. Rao had surrendered before police in Bengaluru on January 21 and was brought here the next day. Police had questioned him extensively and conducted spot mahazar with the accused.
Charged under Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) among other things, it is the delay in obtaining nod under this important Act that has prevented Mangaluru City Police from taking forward their probe against Rao to its logical end in the court. “We have completed our investigation into the case and will file the charge sheet once the home department gives its nod to file charge sheet under UAPA,” city police chief P S Harsha told TOI.
The investigation that K U Belliappa, assistant commissioner of police, Mangaluru City North sub-division carried out churned out a single volume charge sheet that is more than 1000 pages. "It has covered every aspect of the crime that Rao sought to commit at the airport including how he procured the materials used to make the IED online, how he learnt to assemble them, his reasons for choosing MIA. Investigation is professional," Harsha said.
Presently in judicial custody, Harsha said the city police is also contemplating subjecting Rao to a brain mapping test. “Let us see (about the test),” Harsha said, lending credence to what sources in department of prisons said about this test on Rao now remaining pending. Police has obtained nod from deputy commissioner to present charge sheet under Explosives Substances Act and obtained a 90-day extension from court to complete the investigation.
The charge sheet will be initially presented before the sixth Judicial Magistrate First Class court after which the principal district and sessions court judge is expected to take a call on either hearing the case or allocating it to a subordinate additional district and sessions court. Rao had surrendered before police in Bengaluru on January 21 and was brought here the next day. Police had questioned him extensively and conducted spot mahazar with the accused.
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