The district Congress is planning to launch an agitation to intensify its demand that all Communist Party of India (Marxist) workers named in the charge sheet in the case of murder of Youth Congress worker S.P. Shuhaib be arrested by the police.
The decision to launch the agitation followed the police action against Youth Congress and Congress workers who had staged a protest march to the office of the Circle Inspector at Mattannur on July 21 demanding that all the accused named in the charge sheet including local CPI(M) leader be nabbed.
The march organised by the district Youth Congress on Saturday had turned violent and the police had caned the protesters to disperse the march.
District Congress Committee (DCC) president Satheeshan Pacheni said in a press release here on Sunday that the police registered non-bailable cases against Youth Congress and Congress leaders who had participated in the march on Saturday.
An emergency meeting of party leaders including Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee members from the district, DCC office-bearers, block Congress committee presidents and district presidents of the party’s feeder organisations would be held on July 23 to discuss the course of agitation, he informed.
The DCC president said that the party would go to any extent to ensure that slain Shuhaib and his family got justice.
He said that a section of police officers behaved like criminals at Mattannur on Saturday.
The party workers could not remain mute spectators when law enforcers behaved like CPI(M) loyalists.
Hacked to death
Shuhaib had been hacked to death at Edayannur near Mattannur on February 12.
The charge sheet names 17 CPI(M) workers as accused in the case. Six of them including party local leader identified as K.P. Prashant was yet to be arrested.
Prashanth is charged with criminal conspiracy to target the slain Youth Congress leader and with providing financial assistance to the accused to hire a car.
