Several CPI-M partymen named in charge sheet, MLA remanded

Several CPI-M district and local level functionaries were listed as accused in the charge sheet filed by police in a court at Vatakara in Kozhikode district in connection with the murder of Marxist rebel and Revolutionary Marxist Party leader T P Chandrasekharan last May.

The charge sheet, filed by the Special Investigating Team, listed members of the gang which carried out the murder as the first seven accused while CPI-M leaders face charges of conspiracy and harbouring the culprits.

In another case, Rajesh, a first time MLA from Kalyasseri in north Kerala and state secretary of Democratic Youth Federation of India, CPI-M's youth wing, surrendered before the magistrate court in Kannur after Kerala High Court turned down his anticipatory bail plea in Adbul Shukkoor murder case.

The court also rejected the bail plea of CPI-M Kannur district secretary P Jayarajan, arrested in the same case on August 1.

Jayarajan and Rajesh were listed as accused in the case of murder of Shukkoor, an activist of Indian Union Muslim League's youth wing last February.

While rejecting their pleas, the high court also resented widespread violence during the CPI-M called hartal on August 2 to protest Jayarajan's arrest.

After failing to get relief from the high court, Rajesh surrendered before magistrate C Mujeeb Rahiman, who remanded him in judicial custody till August 27.

Jayarajan and Rajesh had been charged under Section 118 of IPC (concealing design to commit offence punishable with death or imprisonment for life).

Abdul Shukkoor was murdered allegedly by CPI-M activists at Keezhara in Kannur district in February.

Police had claimed that some prominent CPI-M leaders in the district were aware of the circumstances of the murder and had sought to harbour the culprits.