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Kerala: Kin of three CPM males held for ‘killing 2 Youth Cong workers’ get govt jobs

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The CPI(M)-ruled Kasaragod district panchayat has given jobs to the wives of three celebration staff — who’ve been arrested for the alleged political murders of Youth Congress staff Kripesh and Sarath Lal — at a authorities hospital within the district.
M Peethambaran, C J Saji and Suresh have been in judicial custody following the killings in February 2019.
There have been 4 vacancies for final grade servants on the hospital and 100 folks had been shortlisted. Three posts got to households of the arrested accused.

Kasaragod district panchayat vice-president Shanavas Podhur stated, “The posting of wives of party workers involved in the twin political murders was not deliberate. It happened so. The hospital is managed by the district panchayat, but this time we were not involved in the interview of the applicants. However, such political recommendations are common. This is only a temporary appointment.”
However, Sarath Lal’s father Sathynarayanan referred to as the appointment a “heinous act”. “It showed the CPI(M) is with the killers,” he stated.
When households of the 2 Youth Congress staff had moved court docket in search of a CBI probe, the earlier LDF authorities had opposed the identical. However, the court docket handed over the case to the central company final 12 months.

The authorities had spent Rs 90 lakh in the direction of the price of senior advocates from the Supreme Court who had argued towards the CBI probe.