Notice to Nisham’s wife for changing testimony

THRISSUR: The First Additional District and Sessions Judge K P Sudheer on Thursday held that there was prima facia evidence in the prosecution charges that Amal, wife of the beedi tycoon Muhammed Nisham, had turned hostile during the trial of Chandrabose murder case.
The prosecution had alleged that Amal had earlier deposed before the judicial first class magistrate under section 164 of the CrPC, upholding the charges that her husband had mowed down the security staff Chandrabose with his car in January 2015.
However, the prosecution alleged that during the trial at the sessions court she had gone back on her earlier testimony , in order to save her husband who was later sentenced to life imprisonment in January this year in the murder case. The sessions judge had then declared that she had turned hostile, as per the prosecution appeal.
The judge has now directed that notices should be issued to Amal and the defence counsel K D Babu to submit their versions on the prosecution charges.
The court had earlier examined P C Bijukumar, the Peramangalam CI who had investigated the case, after the special prosecutor C P Udayabhanu filed the plea for taking penal action against Amal for retracting from her statement given before the magistrate.