Businessman robbed on freeway is RSS employee, says Kerala Police

PROBE INTO a freeway theft of Rs 25 lakh on April 3, three days forward of the meeting elections, has discovered that the businessman who misplaced the cash is an RSS employee, police mentioned on Thursday. Also, in line with the police, there’s a mismatch between the cash claimed to have been robbed and the sum recovered from one of many accused, which is far greater.
According to the grievance lodged with the police on April 7, a day after polling, a gang waylaid the automotive which was carrying the cash and looted it on the freeway from Thrissur to Kochi.
The theft obtained political color after LDF convener and CPI (M) state secretary A Vijayaraghavan alleged that the looted quantity was a part of the BJP’s election fund. He alleged {that a} part of BJP leaders was concerned within the looting of the “black money” that the celebration had allegedly pumped into the elections in Kerala.
Saleem Madavoor, nationwide president of Loktantrik Yuva Janata Dal, additionally complained to the Enforcement Directorate, alleging that the cash was a part of the BJP’s election fund for southern districts. “The actual plundered amount was Rs 10 crore, of which Rs 3.5 crore was meant for Ernakulam district,” he alleged in his grievance.

On Thursday, Thrissur Rural SP G Poonguzhali instructed reporters that the cash belonged to A Ok Dharmarajan, a businessman in Kozhikode. “We have understood from the probe that he is an RSS worker,” she mentioned.
Police have arrested seven folks – all with felony antecedents – in reference to the theft. A search is on for 5 others, together with the important thing suspect.
According to the police, they’ve recovered Rs 30 lakh in money and gold from the premises of one of many arrested individual. The police mentioned this confirmed that the precise quantity looted by the gang may very well be a lot greater.

The police mentioned Dharmarajan obtained Rs 25 lakh from Sunil Naik, a former state treasurer of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, the youth wing of the BJP.
When contacted, Naik, who can also be from Kozhikode, mentioned he had given the cash to Dharmarajan for enterprise functions. “I’ve a number of years of economic transactions with Dharmarajan. When I gave him this explicit quantity, I didn’t ask him why he wanted it. I’ve a real-estate enterprise and I’ll furnish particulars with the police to indicate the supply of revenue. I don’t know something a couple of greater quantity recovered from one of many accused,’’ he mentioned.