KOTTAYAM: Munnar SI P.J. Varghese was transferred to Kattapana police station for registering a case against Devikulam MLA S. Rajendran and others who had trespassed into the Munnar special tribunal office on Tuesday.
Sources said Mr Varghese was made a scapegoat as he had registered the case after holding discussions with the superior officers. “He registered the case after receiving a written petition from the office concerned. One of the employees of the office who was attacked was admitted to the hospital also. He was very cautious in registering the case against the MLA," sources told DC.
A 52-member group comprising CPM activists led by the MLA and tahsildar P.K. Shaji had entered the special tribunal office and destroyed the office furniture. The group demanded that the office should be vacated for facilitating the holding of the classes of the Munnar government arts college as its building was damaged in the floods.
The police were forced to register a case the next day. Mr Varghese, a native of Mundakkayam, has completed 31 years of service and was transferred to Munnar nine months ago from the Peerumade police station.
This is the third transfer over the past two years, said sources. He worked at Peerumade only for six months. He was transferred to Peruvanthanam but was again transferred to Munnar after he registered a case against the CPM leaders as per the direction of the panchayat director for allegedly cutting 103 trees at the panchayat land, a colleague of Mr Varghese told DC. Mr Varghese has 17 more months of service and is a former state committee member of the pro-Congress Kerala police officers association.
