Prosecution says a record number of 148 witnesses were examined in five days

The Madras High Court on Monday granted the Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department (CB-CID) time till March 18 to trace the anti-Sterlite activist T. Mugilan alias Shanmugam. The time was granted at the instance of the prosecution which claimed to have examined 148 witnesses so far.

Justices M. Sathyanarayanan and M. Nirmal Kumar recorded the submission made by Additional Public Prosecutor C. Iyapparaj that the CB-CID had taken up the investigation in the case on February 27 and within five days it had examined a record number of 148 witnesses, including the activist’s wife and family members.