NIA must probe all cases involving SDPI: Surendran

T’puram: BJP state president K Surendran demanded that the state government hand over to NIA all murder cases allegedly committed by SDPI workers in recent times.
Surendran called on governor Arif Mohammed Khan with a request for intervention in the matter. The demand for NIA probe was made in view of the state police’s failure in nabbing the culprits even 24 hours after the brutal killing of RSS worker Sanjith in Palakkad on Monday, said Surendran. “To resist SDPI’s attempts to make Kerala a battleground, all cases in which SDPI workers are accused should be handed over to NIA,” he said.
“It has been proven in Sanjith’s postmortem report that he was hacked to death by trained assailants. It was a planned murder and there was largescale conspiracy behind it. Police did not do anything even when there were attempts on Sajith’s life by SDPI from 2020. Police are reluctant to name SDPI in the murder of Baiju in Chavakkad too. Police are acting in a partisan manner,” he said.
Surendran claimed that the modus operandi of the murder in Palakkad shared similarities in killing patterns reported from Bangalore and elsewhere in the country. “Government has done nothing even as SDPI workers committed 10 murders, including that of SFI leader Abhimanyu, in recent times. Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan is helping SDPI politically. It’s with SDPI’s support that CPM rules Shoranur municipality, which is close to where Sanjith was killed,” Surendran added. He said that the governor has given assurance to intervene in the matter.