'You Were Never In Jail': Kerala Court On Ex-Top Cop's Plea To Ease Bail Terms

A plea by former Kerala Direcotor General of Police (DGP) Tomin J Thachankary to relax his bail conditions so he could travel to Dubai for employment triggered a series of scathing observations from the Kerala High Court today. Justice A Badharudeen questioned how the former police chief, convicted in a disproportionate assets case, had spent almost his entire period of custody in a prison hospital rather than a jail cell."You have not been in jail.

You camped out and went to the hospital," the judge remarked, questioning the circumstances of Thachankary's hospitalisation.The judge reprimanded the counsel to the level that they agreed to withdraw the petition to relax bail. However, the judge was in no mood to give up.

The court witnessed a cut-throat scrutiny and pointed questions by the judge to the lawyers of the former DGP.Thachankary had been sentenced by a Vigilance Court to four years of rigorous imprisonment and fined Rs 30.84 lakh in a disproportionate assets case.