that raid was the practice of butchers to treat the skinned carcass of male calves of cows in betal leaf juice to make it appear as mutton rather than beef. Tails of goats grafted to the tail of such carcasses of calves to invite the customers were also detected. Such spurious and hazardous meat of low quality being supplied to Mental Hospital Trivandrum was also detected during the said raid conducted by this Officer. Apart from his achievements in various investigations of crimes and in enquiries into corruption and other administrative lapses and irregularities, Lakshmana was known for his lightning inspections conducted in police stations and other police offices. His inspection and enquiry reports and case dairies later became the chosen reference materials in the police training colleges of the State Police. Lakshmana was also known for his strictness in enforcing discipline in the State Police in order to prevent misuse of police powers as a result of which he had become the target covert attack by the Kerala Police Association. Encounter of Arikkad Varghese The court examined 31 witnesses when the trial began in April this year. Arikkad Varghese's two brothers and neighbour Prabhakaran, saw a handcuffed Arikkad Varghese being taken by the police, and they testified this in the court. Thomas, one of the brothers had told the court that on the day of the incident, some policemen came to his house and informed the family that Arikkad Varghese had died in an encounter. He had identified the body, which was buried at the compound of their house after the Church refused a resting place. The encounter case of Arikkad Varghese received wide media attention in Kerala after Ramachandran Nair confessed in 1998 that he had shot Varghese at the behest of his superior officers Vijayan and Lakshamana. Following the revelation of Ramachandran Nair that he had shot Vargehse, the latter's brothers and former Naxal colleagues approached the Kerala High Court for a CBI probe. The court in 1999 had asked the CBI to investigate Varghese's death. The CBI had filed charge sheets against Nair, Vijayan and Lakshmana. The statement of witnesses has established the presence of Lakshamana on the spot of crime and his giving threatening instructions to Ramachandran Nair to kill Arikkad Varghese. The court held that it cannot at any stretch of imagination be concluded that all the witnesses have colluded or conspired together to