Kannur, Apr 5: The police investigating the attack on a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) functionary near here last month arrested three Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) workers here on Tuesday.
The arrested have been identified as K.P. Shiras (28), N.V. Muhammad Janfar (24), and Mahroof (20).
The police said they were among the eight PFI and Campus Front workers directly involved in the attack on BJP mandalam vice president Sushil Kumar at Talap, under the Kannur Town police station limits, here late night on March 8.
The assailants who had come on motorcycles, left the BJP functionary seriously injured.
Kannur Deputy Superintendent of Police P.P. Sadanandan toldThe Hinduthat the remaining five assailants and others who were involved in the conspiracy and sheltering the assailants would be nabbed soon. Raids were under way to capture them, he said.
On interrogation of the arrested, the police found that the attack was a sequel to the clashes between Campus Front and Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad workers in a parallel college in the town.
Planned
They told the police that the attack on the BJP functionary was planned as a retaliation for the repeated incidents of entry of allegedly armed BJP workers from nearby locality on the college premises to attack Campus Front workers whenever the college had witnessed clashes between ABVP and Campus Front workers.
The police said that the Sushil Kumar had been stabbed in his abdomen with a sharp blade, allegedly a surgical knife.
Similar weapon had also been used in an attack at Edakkad here on an Indian Union Muslim League worker who also suffered serious injuries in his abdomen, the police said.
The CPI(M) district secretariat in a statement here on Tuesday said that the arrest had brought out the truth behind BJP’s s bid to put the attack on the shoulders of the party.
The statement also expressed shock at the disclosure that surgical knives were used in the recent attacks by SDPI workers.
Inquiry needed
The police should inquire into the source of availability of such weapons, it said.
The BJP had staged marches to the DySP office alleging that the CPI(M) was behind the attack and that the police were protecting the assailants.
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