Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh police are not only "shocked" by High Court's order to acquit Satyambabu in Ayesha Meera murder case, its presumptive observations have also left them "disturbed". While letting Satyambabu walk free as innocent, the High court ordered departmental action against erring investigating officers for their failure.
The police are waiting for a complete judgment copy to officially reach them. After studying the entire judgement, the decision about further action will be taken. However, top sources in Andhra Pradesh police have confirmed that they will go for an appeal against the verdict in Supreme Court.
Defending their case, top sources in Andhra Pradesh police say their case was not based merely on a theory but was strongly corroborated by scientific and material evidence. All evidence like vaginal swabs, fingerprints, footprint, etc. were collected by the crime team and tallied with that of accused.
Over 100 people were investigated. One officer, who investigate the case, said even the role of a top politician's grandson was probed after his name was propped up by the victim's family in the case. The grandson and his friends' samples were taken, which included DNA, fingerprint and handwriting, but none of that matched with those from the crime scene. Therefore, their role was ruled out in the case.
Satyambabu was jailed for 6 months in early 2008 for a theft case. He was again picked up from his home in Nandigama in August 2008. Nandigama police officers who arrested him told, he was detained in a criminal case, where he allegedly entered a girls' hostel and hit the warden on her head, when he was caught. It was during this investigation, he confessed to his earlier crime, the murder of Ayesha Meera. To confirm his DNA, fingerprint, and handwriting sample were taken and the reports matched.
In the confession video that has emerged, Satyambabu is seen explaining in detail how he committed the crime. He narrated how he reached inside, after killing Ayesha, abused her body and how he created the crime scene inspired from a movie.
In his confession video, he says, "I had gone for a movie. While returning, I saw a girl standing out reading a book in girls’ hostel. She went inside. I did not know why. So I climbed up, using small walls. I saw her in a room sleeping, others were also nearby her. I did not know what to do, so I came down. There was a dhaba, I picked up a big stone from there. I climbed again and hit her hard. I, then, dragged her by her feet till outside, and tied her. I raped her after that. She was dead by then. I was getting scared. Then I remembered how, in movies, they covered up such a crime. I wrote a love letter and scribbled my name on her chest to show murder was a result of love failure."
Sources in police department say tampering of evidence, as claimed by the defence in High Court, in this case, was impossible. Satyambabu was in judicial custody, and all his samples were collected inside the jail by the concerned authorities and that too, by court orders. All reports from forensic labs were directly submitted to the court.
On the observation of the Court that "was he a superman to climb the building", the police say that the building is not difficult to climb. The building has many small steps like wall making it easy for any person to climb.
The session’s court convicted Satyambabu on the basis of same evidence, but High court reversed the order and came down strongly on investigative agencies for framing an innocent. As Andhra Pradesh police are gearing up to file an appeal, they say, factually, they are confident of countering the verdict in a higher Court.
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