'No illegality in ordering CBI probe into conspiracy to kill

Director General of Prosecutions T Asaf Ali today advised the Kerala government that there was no illegality in ordering a CBI probe into the conspiracy charge relating to the murder of T P Chandrasekharan, founder leader of Revolutionary Marxist Party, a breakaway group of CPI(M).
The legal advise was given after the state had sought the DGP's opinion on a CBI probe into the conspiracy charge of the murder.
Earlier, the Chombal police station in kozhikode had registered a case relating to the conspiracy charge of the murder case and filed a chargesheet before the court.
The committal proceedings relating to the case is pending before a magistrate court in Kozhikode district.

The Special Court at Kozhikode had recently sentenced 11 persons, including three local CPI(M) functionaries, to life imprisonment in the case.
RMP and Chandrasekharan's widow, Rema, has also sought a CBI probe into the killing and has threatened to go on fast, demanding the same.

Chandrasekharan, a former CPI(M) worker from the red bastion Onjiyam near Vatakara in north Kerala, was hacked to death by an eight-member gang on May 4, 2012.
He left CPI(M) a few years ago over differences with the leadership and floated a parallel outfit, the RMP.He was 51 at the time of murder and suffered 51 hack injuries on the body.

The murder had cast a shadow on CPI(M) in the state,firmly controlled by state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan with not only rival parties,but senior leaders like V S Achuthanandan using it as a weapon to attack internal foes.