JUDGMENT :

G.K. ILANTHIRAIYAN, J.

Prayer: Criminal Original Petition filed under Section 482 of Cr.P.C. praying to transfer the investigation in Crime No. 630 of 2020 on the file of the second respondent to the CBI or any other independent agencies to conduct for further investigation or reinvestigation in the manner known to law.

1. This petitioner has been filed for transfer of investigation in Crime No. 630 of 2020 from the file of the second respondent to the file of CBI or any other independent investigation agency to conduct further investigation or re-investigation.

2. The learned counsel appearing for the petitioner would submit that the case of the prosecution is that the petitioner along with the other accused trespassed into the defacto complainant's shop, where his elder daughter Jayashree was alone there. The accused persons assaulted her and also gagged her mouth with cloth, tied her hands and legs and poured petrol on her and set fire, then they closed the doors and ran away. He further submitted that as per FIR and the dying declaration of the deceased, the accused persons said to have been poured petrol. However, the second respondent introduced a new version by the co