A
fresh case has been registered on a complaint seeking a “comprehensive” probe
into the larger conspiracy which led to the murder of Revolutionary Marxist
Party leader T.P. Chandrasekharan on May 4, 2012.
The
case was registered by the Edachery police on a complaint filed by K.K. Rema,
wife of Chandrasekharan, who is on an indefinite fast in Thiruvananthapuram
demanding a CBI investigation into the conspiracy behind her husband’s murder.
The
registering of the case may buoy up the chances for the Kerala government to
call in the CBI.
Ms.
Rema’s complaint has sought a deeper probe into the “meeting of minds” leading
to the killing, saying that the earlier investigation which led to the
conviction of 11 accused by a special court did not pry further into the murder
plot.
In
its recent judgment, the Special Additional Sessions Court (Marad cases) had
observed that the motive for killing Chandrasekharan “was political animosity”.
The
court had further said the killer gang that committed the murder was “tools in
the hands of the persons who entertained political enmity towards the
deceased”. It had added that “political murders are not uncommon in Kerala”.
The
court had found three CPI(M) men, K.C. Ramachandran, member of the
Kunnummakkara local committee, Manojan aka Trouser Manojan, former branch
secretary of Kadanganpoyil of the CPI(M), and P.K. Kunhanandan, member of the
Panur area committee of the CPI(M), guilty of criminal conspiracy for murder in
its verdict.
Referring
to Rema’s complaint, the Edachery police said it described the nature of police
probe into the murder as only “peripheral”.
The
police said no names of any CPI(M) leader had been mentioned in the complaint,
though it referred to the crime as a product of a political rivalry stemmed
from Chandrasekharan’s growing influence at Onchiyam after he left the party to
form a splinter group.
It
said Chandrasekharan had been able to garner public goodwill within a short
span under the political banner of the RMP.
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