: Union Minister for Home Rajnath Singh said here on Friday that the Union government was ready to institute a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the rape and murder of a law student at Perumbavoor last week.
“If an MLA from the State makes a request in this connection to the Union government, a CBI probe would be immediately ordered,” he said. The Minister said the State administration had tried everything possible to prevent the murder from gaining public attention and succeeded in it for six days.
Recent developments showed that Kerala had become highly insecure for women and the recurrence of such incidents in a land known as ‘God’s Own Country’ should be viewed seriously, Mr. Singh said while addressing an election campaign meeting of NDA candidate at Chathannur B.B. Gopakumar.
He alleged that the statement of Leader of the Opposition V.S. Achuthanandan that the latter would be in the forefront when it came to ensuring justice in the murder case was nothing but chicanery. Mr. Achuthanandan had lost his credibility in Kerala politics.
“Where are the so-called VIPs in the Kathiroor and Kiliroor cases. Mr. Achuthanandan took the Chief Minister’s chair in 2006 by promising the people that the identities of these VIPs would be exposed,” he said.
