Cong MP wants Centre to order CBI probe into 'TP murder case'

Senior Congress MP Mullappally Ramachandran today asked the Centre to refer to CBI the murder case of T P Chandrasekharan, saying it is a fit case for a probe by the central investigation agency.
His statement comes two days after an IUML activist was hacked to death in Nadapuram area in his Lok Sabha constituency Vadakara, allegedly by CPI(M) workers.
Ramachandran today shot off a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying the Centre's decision not to have the Chandrasekharan case investigated by CBI was "received with anguish and despair" by people of north Kerala. A similar letter was also sent to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh.

Referring to the Centre's communication that the murder of Chandrashekaran in 2012 was not a fit case for CBI probe, he said "All political parties and right thinking people were fervently hoping to put an end to political violence and murders that had been going on for decades."
He said people were looking forward to a positive response as BJP also has been campaigning for referring the case to CBI for further investigation into the political conspiracy behind the murder.
"If an inquiry had been conducted by an agency like CBI people by and large strongly believe that the real conspirators behind this murder would have been exposed.

"I still believe that some prominent political leaders are involved in the conspiracy. They have been allowed to go scot-free as the conspiracy angle of the case has not been thoroughly investigated. I repeat that the Chandrashekaran murder case is a fit case for CBI to probe," he said.

Eleven persons, three of them local CPI(M) functionaries, were sentenced to life in the murder case by a special court in Kozhikode. Eight of them were members of the gang that allegedly hacked to death Marxist rebel Chandrasekharan while three others were CPI(M) activists who were found to have plotted the murder. However, there have been demands from various quarters for a CBI probe into the case.

Ramachandran said only 80 days have lapsed since the CPI(M)-led LDF government assumed charge and "during this short span of time, 60 murders have taken place. This is a sad and unprecedented record. Two political murders have occurred within 25 days in my constituency".
He also referred to Singh's visit to north Kerala to assess the volatile political situation there and urged Modi to refer the case to CBI.
"Such a step would definitely make way for putting an end to the series of political murders that are taking place in the north Malabar region of Kerala," he said.