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Police file chargesheet in Tanur boat tragedy

A special police team investigating the May 7 Tanur boat tragedy submitted its chargesheet before the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court at Parappanangadi on Monday.

The 13,186-page chargesheet has arraigned 12 including a few government officials. Twenty-two people, as many as 15 of them children, had drowned when an overcrowded tourist boat capsized in the Poorapuzha at Tanur around 7 p.m. on May 7.

It took 12 weeks for the special investigation team led by DySP V.V. Benny to file the chargesheet, which included 865 documents and 386 witness statements.

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