Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)

Mangaluru, Jan 30: Deputy commissioner of Dakshina Kannada, A B Ibrahim, who also happens to be the district magistrate, has issued an order instructing the assistant commissioner here to file a case at the police station against those responsible for losing a file relating to the death of Everest Pereira from the city.

Carmeline Pereira, wife of the late Everest Pereira, had filed an application under Right to Information Act on December 20, 2014, seeking a report from the file about the death of her husband under suspicious circumstances. The report was to be presented to the court. The tahsildar had requested the assistant commissioner to furnish the file.

But the tahsildar was informed that the file concerned was not available in the office of the assistant commissioner. The letter also sought to conduct an inquiry about the file going missing.

Records at the east police station in the city reveal that a case of unnatural death was registered under No 17/2005 about Everest Pereira. This file was thereafter sent to the record room of the office of the assistant commissioner. The file was requested to be reconstructed as it was not traceable.

Carmeline had approached the court seeking investigation into the death of her husband under suspicious circumstances. The court had ordered to investigate the case. Former justice of Mumbai high court, Justice M F Saldanha, had written to the office of the deputy commissioner, drawing attention to the missing case, which is required for investigation. The deputy commissioner, after looking into the case, has ordered for making known the exact reason for the file going missing, and also to register a case against those responsible for this lapse.