Maharaja College murder: Sleuths verifying call details to uncover conspiracy

The assailants attacked the students with lethal weapons as knuckles, wooden sticks, tubelights and knives.

Published: 06th July 2018 06:43 AM  |   Last Updated: 06th July 2018 06:43 AM   |  A+A-

Maharaja's College.

By Express News Service

KOCHI: As part of the probe, the police have taken six more persons, all SDPI-Campus Front of India workers, into custody. Of them, two will be named accused in the case, according to the sources.

Mohammed A I called the others from outside the campus while the SFI activists were involved in a graffiti work to welcome the freshers. The assailants attacked the students with lethal weapons as knuckles, wooden sticks, tubelights and knives. Abhimanyu, who came to the spot to block the assailants, was stabbed with a sharp object on his left chest. Following this, the gang attacked students Arjun and Rahul, who suffered severe injuries in the clash, according to the FIR.

Meanwhile, Saifuddin, 27, a PFI worker hailing from Nettur, near Kochi, who was arrested on Wednesday night, was produced before the magistrate on Thursday and was remanded in custody. Earlier, the police team had arrested three persons  — Bilal Saji, Farook Amani and Riyas Hussain — from Cochin House, a lodge run by the Campus Front workers at Ernakulam North, in connection with the case.

The police team later took the four persons into custody for further interrogation. Besides, the sleuths are also verifying the call details of several persons owing allegiance to the PFI-SDPI  to ascertain if the murder was part of a larger conspiracy.

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