Jacob Job exonerated of all charges against him

Thrissur:

Former police commissioner of Thrissur

Jacob Job said that he was exonerated of all charges that were levelled against him during the

investigation

in the

Chandrabose murder case

. He said that the government has regularized the pay and allowances during his period of suspension from Feb 28, 2015, to March 18, 2016 and it was based on the GO dated Aug 9, 2020 after an enquiry report was filed. Job said he was reinstated on March 18, 2016.

“I was exonerated of the charge that I attempted to scuttle the investigation in favour of beedi tycoon Muhammed Nisham, the accused in the Chandrabose murder case. The case was registered at Peramangalam police station in Thrissur city,” said the officer who joined the police service in 1981 and won the President’s police medal in 2011. Earlier, vigilance enquiries failed to find substantial evidence of financial transactions between the suspended commissioner and Nisham. Job was suspended on February 28, 2015, following allegations that he had a secret meeting with Nisham when the latter was remanded in custody in Chandrabose case. Job was transferred first as SP of Pathanamthitta soon after the allegations surfaced and suspended later.

The vigilance court had ordered a probe against the officer based on the petition by social activist PD Joseph. The allegation was that Job, who was the then commissioner, was closeted with Nisham three times during police custody for around 90 minutes in the absence of other investigating officers and they struck a deal then. The then VACB director Shanker Reddy had said that there was nothing wrong in the commissioner questioning the accused in police custody. He had ordered a further probe to find whether there was a change in the attitude of the commissioner towards the murder case after the controversial meeting. Nisham had roughed up and later knocked down Chandrabose (48) at the entry gate of Sobha City, with his Hummer for not opening the gate properly on Jan 29, 2015. Chandrabose succumbed to his injuries at a hospital 19 days later. Nisham is now serving life sentence at Poojappura central jail in Thiruvananthapuram. tnn


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