A day after nabbing the prime accused in the murder of Maharaja’s College student Abhimanyu, the police have now further widened the net and are on the lookout for a law student from the district.
The police are after the student of a private college in the district, who, incidentally, is also a main office-bearer of the Campus Front of India (CFI). The investigation team is looking at whether he was part of the ‘killer gang’ that stabbed Abhimanyu to death.
According to police sources, he was at the Cochin Hostel where the CFI and Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) activists had camped ahead of the attack. He is suspected to be among the armed group summoned by the prime accused Mohammed, who was arrested on Wednesday. He had full knowledge of the entire episode leading to Abhimanyu’s death. A third year law student, he was suspended from the college.
Meanwhile, the police are set to approach the court seeking 10 days custody of Mohammed who was remanded. The police are confident of cracking the case through their custodial interrogation.
The police found that some of the women activists of the CFI had contacted the prime accused on the day of murder. Though some of them had already been questioned, no link to the crime had been detected.
Mohammed was taken into custody from a train on the Mangalore border. He was found to have taken ticket to his home district of Alappuzha.
Shanavaz, a resident of Thalassery, was also arrested on Wednesday on charge of helping the accused to go hiding. Naushad, a resident of Mattancherry, was taken into custody on Thursday for the same charge. The police intensified the search for the remaining accused.