CHENNAI: A writ plea has been made in the Madras High Court for a direction to the Centre to take immediate steps leading to issuance of Red Corner notice by the Interpol Secretariat General at Lyon in France against Sri Lankan minister Douglas Devananda, a proclaimed and absconding accused in a murder case in Chennai.A division bench comprising Justices K Mohanram and GM Akbar Ali adjourned the matter by two weeks, on Wednesday. In his petition advocate P Pugalenthi submitted that Devenanda was involved in the murder case in Chennai in 1986. He was declared a proclaimed and absconding offender by a sessions court in 1994. While so, he visited India last year. Petitioner filed a petition for a direction to the authorities concerned to arrest him during his stay in the country. He, howerver, left India after a brief stay.Petitioner contended that if a person, whether an Indian or a foreigner, had committed an offence in India and was subsequently believed to have absconded to a foreign country, a request could be made by the police authorities concerned to the Interpol wing of the CBI for publication of a Red Corner Notice against that person.Devananda was an absconding offender for the past 17 years. Hence, it was the duty of the Union Ministries of External Affairs and Home to make a request to the Interpol Wing of the CBI for publication of a Red Corner Notice against Devananda. Unless it was done, he would continue to remain as an absconding accused and thereby evade the process of justice for ever, petitioner said.
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