Consider plea seeking murder charge in encounter death

MADURAI: The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Monday directed Madurai city police commissioner to consider a plea from a 55-year-old man seeking registration of murder case against a police inspector who had shot dead his son V Subash Chandra Bose (29) in an alleged encounter on April 1.

In his petition, N Veerapathiran (55) also sought CBCID probe into his son’s death. Justice P Dhanabal directed the commissioner to consider the plea and take a decision about registering FIR as per NHRC guidelines, within two weeks.