Kerala Police has taken into custody five persons in connection with the murder of BJP leader Ranjith Sreenivasan here. Five SDPI activists from Mannancherry were taken into police custody. They are identified as Nishad, Asif, Sudhir, Arshad and Ali, all residents of Mannancherry. It is learned that none of the arrested persons were directly involved in the murder.
Police believe that they will get information about those who were directly involved in the crime from these people. It is alleged that those who were taken into custody had helped the accused by arranging a vehicle to reach Ranjith’s house.
Earlier, the officiers had interrogated about eight suspects in connection with the alleged double murders in Alappuzha.
According to the police, the bikes used for the killing of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State Secretary of OBC Morcha, Ranjith Sreenivasan were seized.
Two murders of senior political functionaries from SDPI and BJP rocked Kerala’s Alappuzha, forcing the local administration to impose Section 144 in the district.
In two separate incidents, Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) state secretary KS Shaan was allegedly attacked and murdered in Kerala’s Alappuzha on Saturday night.
This was followed by a separate incident in which BJP OBC morcha state secretary Renjith Sreenivasan was killed at his house by unidentified people early on Sunday morning in Alappuzha.
According to the police, Shaan was on a two-wheeler when a gang in a car attacked him on Saturday night. SDPI has alleged that RSS workers are behind this attack.
(With inputs from ANI)
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