Mob assaults police workforce, helps CPM chief escape

By Express News Service
KOZHIKODE: A Police  workforce which went to take a CPM chief into custody in an try to homicide case was attacked by a mob at Nittoor in Kuttiady station limits right here on Sunday night time. Four cops, together with a sub-inspector, had been injured within the assault, allegedly by CPM activists. However, no arrest has been made even 24 hours after the incident.The workforce of officers, led by SI Aneesh V Ok, had gone to take CPM department secretary Ambath Ashokan in a case of homicide try on a BJP employee by hurling a bomb at him in 2016.

According to the police, the Nadapuram Sessions Court had despatched repeated summons to Asokan within the case however he didn’t flip up earlier than the courtroom ensuing within the issuing of the arrest warrant.  When the police reached his residence round 10.45pm, Ashokan sought time to go to the washroom and allegedly knowledgeable fellow celebration employees. Soon, round 50 CPM males rushed to the spot and began attacking the cops. “They used wooden sticks and thrashed us,” mentioned a police officer.

Civil police officer Sabin from MSP camp sustained accidents to his nostril and was admitted to Kozhikode Medical College Hospital. Another CPO and residential guard too had been injured. The miscreants additionally broken a police automobile and the officers needed to retreat leaving Asokan behind.  A case has been charged towards 50 individuals, together with Asokan and his spouse, beneath numerous sections together with illegal meeting, rioting armed with lethal weapons and voluntarily inflicting damage.

The injured officers have been discharged from hospital.SI Aneesh instructed TNIE that they went in quest of Asokan near midnight to catch him pink handed as he was avoiding courtroom summons. Meanwhile, CPM Kunnummal space secretary Ok Ok Suresh mentioned he was not absolutely conscious of the problem.