CPM men held for murder of RSS activist

Kannur, February 16

A 27-year-old RSS worker was hacked to death in front of his aged parents in Kannur district in poll-bound Kerala, triggering blame game today between the BJP and the CPM.

While the BJP slammed the CPM for last night’s murder of the RSS worker, Sujit, the Left party has denied it, saying it was the “fallout of a local incident relating to insulting a girl”.

The police said 10 CPM sympathisers had been taken into custody and they are being questioned. Sujit succumbed to the injuries before reaching hospital late last night. His aged parents and a brother tried to stop the assailants, who stormed into their house at Papinesseri around 11.30 pm, and suffered injuries in the process. They have also been hospitalised.

BJP’s Kannur district chief Satyaprakash said the CPM was allegedly behind the attack. He said the CPM had decided to whip up violence to get over the embarrassment of the arrest of its district secretary, P Jayarajan, an accused in the murder of a BJP functionary in 2014, after his bail plea was rejected. — PTI