Two extra assailants held for killing BJP OBC Morcha chief in Kerala’s Alappuzha
2 min readBy PTI
ALAPPUZHA: A Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by ADGP Vijay Sakhare on Saturday arrested two extra folks allegedly concerned within the killing of a BJP OBC Morcha chief in Kerala’s coastal Alappuzha district final month.
“Two more persons directly involved in the killing of Ranjith Sreenivas have been arrested”, Sakhare instructed PTI.
With this, the variety of individuals who’ve been arrested in reference to the killing of the BJP chief has now reached 10, police mentioned. Of the ten arrested individuals, 4 had been a part of the gang that killed Sreenivas whereas six had been arrested for hatching the conspiracy to homicide him, they mentioned.
The arrested individuals are activists of the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), the political offshoot of Islamist outfit Popular Front of India (PFI), police mentioned.
Police mentioned yet another one that was allegedly concerned within the conspiracy to kill the OBC Morcha chief has been taken into custody.
Police have gone after different absconding accused within the case, Sakhara mentioned, whereas including, “we will catch all of them” Saturday’s arrest of the 2 members of the killer gang has introduced some aid for police, which got here beneath assault from the BJP for alleged delay in nabbing the culprits immediately concerned within the crime.
The back-to-back killings of two political activists — BJP’s Sreenivas and the opposite of SDPI’s Ok S Shan — in coastal Alappuzha district had rocked Kerala final week.
Shan, the state secretary of SDPI, was killed by a gang on the evening of December 18 whereas he was returning house in Alappuzha, whereas the BJP OBC Morcha state secretary Sreenivas was hacked to demise in entrance of his household by some assailants in his home on December 19 morning in the identical district.
Police have asserted that each one the culprits concerned within the heinous acts might be dropped at ebook and added that they had been additionally investigating the “larger conspiracy” behind the 2 killings.
