Kannur: The BJP has rubbished the revelations made by party worker Embrantavida Subeesh that he and three others were behind the killing of NDF activist Mohammad Fasal in 2006. “Subeesh was tortured to extract the confession to save the CPM men, and the conspiracy was hatched by two DySPs in the district,” said BJP district president P. Sathyaprakasan and state cell convener K. Ranjith. Subeesh made the confession while he was interrogated in connection with the murder of CPM leader K. Mohanan near Anjarakkandy in October.
It may be recalled that Kannur CPM district secretariat member Karayi Rajan and Thiruvangad local committee secretary Karayi Chandrasekharan were jailed after the CBI named them as accused number 7 and 8 respectively in the Fasal murder case. The state police will have little role in re-probing the case which was taken up by the CBI on February 14, 2008 after a petition by Fasal’s wife Mariyu in the High Court. The CBI had also submitted a chargesheet. DGP Loknath Behera told Deccan Chronicle that he was awaiting a report from Kannur SP Sanjay Kumar Gurudin on the confession.
“I have received the video recordings of the confessions and verified them and am waiting for the recorded statements of the accused prepared by the district police chief. Later, I will inform the CBI about the new development in the Fasal murder case. Any re-investigation in the case is up to the central agency to consider,” he said. Referring to the confession made by Subeesh that the same team was behind the murder of CPM man Chittariparambil Pavithran at Kannavam in 2009, he said a re-probe into it would be considered.
Legal experts and political circles say that the new revelations may not help the CPM as the party men were arraigned during the LDF rule when Mr Kodiyeri Balakrishnan was the home minister. If the CBI takes up the case again and finds the new revelations significant, the officers who investigated it earlier would be answerable for holding the innocent guilty. They will also have to explain the conspiracy behind fabricating the charges against Karayi Rajan and Karayi Chandrasekharan.
Truth will be out one day: Karayi Rajan
“Truth will be out one day,” according to CPM district secretariat member Karayi Rajan who has been chargesheeted by the CBI in the murder of NDF worker Fasal in 2006. He was referring to the confessions made by BJP worker Subeesh that he and three others were behind the murder of Fasal. Rajan is the eighth and CPM local committee member Karayi Chandrasekharan the seventh accused in the case.
Rajan, who is out on bail, told DC over phone, “three years have gone since the CPM leaders were trapped in the case. We pleaded with the probing officers and the court several times about our innocence, but to no avail. We also expressed our willingness to undergo a narco-analysis test. But no one listened,” he said. He and Chandrasekharan were arrested and sent to jail. During the last local body poll, Rajan contested to the district panchayat and Chandrasekharan to the Thalasserry municipality. Both won and Karayi Rajan became the Kannur district panchayat president and Karayi Chandrasekharan the chairman of Thalasserry municipality. Both put in their papers after the CBI named them in the chargesheet.
