By Express News Service
PALAKKAD: In a vital improvement, the police group probing the homicide of RSS activist Sreenivasan arrested on Sunday a PFI/SDPI activist who was straight concerned within the crime. According to police, Mohammed Iqbal, 34, alias Abdul Khader, a local of Puddanoor close to Mundur, was among the many assailants who got here in three two-wheelers and hacked Sreenivasan to loss of life at his store round 1pm on April 16.
The police additionally recorded the arrest of one other PFI/SDPI activist, Fayaz, 28, a local of Chadanamkurissy, on Sunday. Fayaz was among the many 16 individuals who hatched the conspiracy and supplied logistic help to the killers, the police mentioned.
Though the police had earlier arrested seven individuals within the case, the probe group was beneath great stress as they might not nab even one of many six individuals who got here on two-wheelers to assault Sreenivasan.
According to the police, Mohammed Iqbal rode one of many two-wheelers during which the attackers reached the spot. With Sunday’s arrest, a complete of 9 individuals have been held within the case. While eight of them, together with the Imam of the Shankuvarathode mosque, Saddam Hussein, 30, have been concerned in conspiracy and offering shelter to the perpetrators, solely Mohammed Iqbal was straight concerned within the killing of Sreenivasan, the police mentioned.
The 5 different SDPI/PFI activists who have been straight concerned within the crime are nonetheless at massive, they mentioned.
Meanwhile, the police carried out raids on the workplaces of SDPI and PFI at Pattambi and Thrithala in reference to the probe into Sreenivasan’s homicide.
The youths arrested on costs of conspiracy and offering logistic help have allegedly informed the police that every one the instructions for attacking Sreenivasan was given by SDPI/PFI chief Abdul Rasheed of Pattambi.
Earlier, the occasion workplaces and homes of SDPI leaders in Palakkad have been searched as a part of the probe. The police suspect native leaders of PFI/SDPI in Pattambi and Thrithala could also be harbouring the killers.
