A year after the murder of the Bahujan Samaj Party’s state leader K. Armstrong, and a series of arrests by the CBCID in the case, the murder probe has been transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Looked at as a rare intervention, the Madras High Court on Wednesday ordered the transfer of the murder probe to the CBI, criticising the police for not investigating the case properly.

The court called it a “miserable failure” on the part of the police in investigating the case.

Justice P. Velmurugan of the Madras High Court, while allowing a petition filed by Armstrong’s brother K. Immanuvel, transferred the case to the CBI, stating that the police did not adhere to even the basic requirements in investigating a murder case.

In July, while hearing the case, the court asked t

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