Surendran seeks arrest of Jayarajan

Mr. Surendran said that CPI (M) leadership in Kannur had plotted to sabotage the case even before it was handed over to a Central agency by the State government.

September 16, 2014 11:10 am | Updated November 16, 2021 05:49 pm IST - Kozhikode:

Bharatiya Janat Party (BJP) State unit general secretary K. Surendran has demanded that the Home Department register a case and arrest P. Jayarajan, secretary of the Kannur district unit of the CPI(M) for reportedly threatening a Deputy Superintendent of Police (Dy.SP) who is part of the police team investigating the murder of a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) functionary at Thalassery.

Addressing a news conference here in Monday, Mr. Surendran said that CPI (M) leadership in Kannur had plotted to sabotage the case even before it was handed over to a Central agency by the State government.

The CPI(M) district secretary had threatened the officer over phone after two party activists were taken into custody for interrogation.

The CPI (M) leaders were using the same primitive methodology just as they had done during the probe of the murder of Revolutionary Marxist Party leader T.P. Chandrasekharan in 2012.

He accused the Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and the Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala of maintaining a stoic silence when a Dy.SP was intimidated by a CPI (M) leader in Kannur. The investigation in the case was not all done in a scientific manner. It was unfortunate that the police failed to arrest prime suspect V.T. Vikraman even after a look out notice was issued against him, he added.

VS stance

However, Mr. Surendran said that the Leader of the Opposition V. S. Achuthanandan had indicated his opinion for a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the murder of the RSS leader. Mr. Achuthanandan had also made similar statements regarding the Chandrasekharan murder case, he said.

He said that BJP would organise two regional jathas (processions) with the message ‘freedom, peace and development’ from Koyilandy to Kannur and from Udma to Kannur on September 23, 24 and 25.

The jathas led by BJP leader P.K. Krishnadas and State president V. Muraleedharan would highlight the fascist face of the CPI (M) in the party villages.

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