Chennai: Nearly a week after taking over the probe into the murder of BSP leader K Armstrong, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sleuths on Saturday visited Venugopal Street at Perambur, where he was hacked to death, and reconstructed the occurrence.A team of three officials, led by DIG Raguramarajan, visited the spot — an under-construction house of the BSP leader — and recorded how the murder took place. Inspector M Chiranjeevi, who was the station house officer when Armstrong was murdered on July 5, 2024, and was the investigating officer, was also present.The special task branch (STB) of CBI, Chennai, had reregistered the original first information report (FIR) recorded by the Sembium police based on a complaint filed by Armstrong’s brother Veeramani, who was a witness to the murder.Though Madras high court transferred the investigation to the CBI in Sept last year quashing the chargesheet filed by the city police, the then Chennai police commissioner approached Supreme Court challenging the high court order. The petition was later dismissed as withdrawn, and Supreme court cleared the decks for CBI to take over the probe and start investigation afresh.
