Kannur, Oct 12: A BJP activist was hacked to death in Kerala's Kannur on Wednesday, in what is suspected to be revenge killing two days after a worker of the ruling CPI(M) was murdered in the same district.
The BJP has alleged the role of the CPI(M) in the killing of its activist Remith at a village in Dharmadom, which is Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's constituency.
The police have strengthened patrolling and deployment in sensitive areas across Kannur in view of the tense situation.
On Monday, 52-year-old CPI(M) worker Mohanan K was attacked at his toddy shop in a busy market and hacked to death by four or five men.
Police sources said the attackers were masked and "the attack is of a political nature."
The CPM has alleged that BJP workers were behind the attack.
Kannur has witnessed a string of attacks on political workers since the Left government came to power in May. Over 300 cases of political violence have been reported in the district in the past five months.
The opposition has accused the government of not acting against the growing political violence.
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The murder of Remith is the sixth political murder that the district has witnessed since May 1, when the law and order situation in parts of the district saw escalation.
The murdered people during the period include three CPI(M) workers and two BJP-RSS workers.
In addition to this, a BJP worker had died in a bomb explosion near Kathirur while handling bombs kept in his house. With the latest murder, this year's death toll in political violence in the district so far rose to seven, three CPI(M) workers and four BJP-RSS workers.
The kidnapped schoolboy was rescued by the police and reunited with his parents. Son of a gift shop owner from Basavanagudi area in Bengaluru, Chirag has reportedly told police that decided to make some quick money to spend on cricket betting and gambling after learning kidnap tricks from the ‘Crime Patrol’. According to police, Chirag reached a private school around 3pm on Tuesday on a Bounce rental bike and zeroed in on a fourth standard student who was walking out of school. He told the boy he was his father's friend and that he required help to search for a relative who had gone missing. The boy believed Chirag and rode pillion on the bike. Chirag then engaged the boy in conversation and learnt about his father's business and got his mobile phone number. He then made a call to the boy's father, demanded Rs 5 lakh and warned him against approaching cops. However, the boy's father alerted Cottonpet police and special teams were formed to crack the case. While Cottonpet inspector Venkatesh TC's squad verified CCTV footage in and around the school, Chamarajpet inspector BG Kumaraswamy's team started tracking the suspect's mobile phone movements. An hour later, the suspect's location was traced to a hotel on the Lavelle Road-St Mark's Road stretch. Police rushed there, rescued the boy and arrested Chirag.
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They dint know they are trying to play in Kerala where people know how to play with politicians......ha haa.....
How long they are going to eat the flesh of one another....very bad....at last their poor family has to suffer....
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