CHENNAI: More than five months after a hooch tragedy claimed 67 lives in Tamil Nadu's Kallakurichi, Madras HC handed over the probe to CBI, after slamming the state govt, expressing dissatisfaction with the investigation and the unexplained reinstatement of a suspended police officer, reports Sureshkumar k. Holding that the Kallakurichi hooch tragedy is one of the rarest of rare cases which warrants a fair and impartial investigation, a division bench of Justice D Krishnakumar and Justice P B Balaji said: "This court is of the prima facie view that had the police officials nipped the problem in the bud, the loss of 67 lives in Kallakurichi could have been easily averted.".
