Coimbatore: Amidst dispute over jurisdiction of a scene of crime, the Kerala police have transferred a murder case to the rural police in the district.According to a police officer, the case relates to the murder of a 19-year-old truck cleaner, who died of injuries sustained in a stone pelting incident near Chadavankalai at Kanjikode in Kerala in July this year.The officer said the incident took place when the truck, which was laden with vegetables, was heading to Alappuzha in Kerala from Mettupalayam vegetable market on July 23, when truck operators were on a nation-wide strike.“When the truck neared Kanjikode, a 15-member gang hurled stones at the vehicle. The windshield of the truck was broken and the stones directly hit the cleaner M Vijay alias Mubarak Basha, of Vadakkalur near Annur, on his chest and he fell unconscious,” the officer said and added that incident had occurred at 1am on July 23.Truck driver B Noorullah, 26, of Mettupalayam, took the cleaner to the government hospital in Palakkad, where doctors declared him brought dead.When alerted, the Kasaba police in Palakkad district registered a case against the 15-member gang under Sections 147, 143, 148, 302 read with 149 of the Indian Penal Code.However, the Kerala state police later informed the Coimbatore rural police that the incident had taken place in the latter’s jurisdiction and that they could not further investigate the case.But the rural police countered the Kerala police’s stand and said such an incident hadn’t taken place in Coimbatore district. Kerala police officials, meanwhile, transferred the case to the Coimbatore rural police on Wednesday.When contacted, Thooyamani Velladurai, circle inspector, KG Chavadi police station, said he has received the case details from the Kerala police. “I will discuss the issue with the higher officials and take a call,” he told TOI.

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