Martin Menacherry (Special correspondent)
The Kerala Police have arrested four more Social Democratic Party of India-Popular Front of India (SDPI-PFI) workers in connection with the murder of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) activist Sreenivasan,taking the number of arrests to 13.
The four arrested people have been identified as Abdul Rehman, Firoz, Basile and Rishil.
All arrested are SDPI-PFI workers.Abdul Rehman and Firoz are directly involved in the murder, said police.
With the arrest of four persons today,a total of 13 persons have been arrested in connection with the case.
Sanjith’s death was apparently the reason behind the killing of Popular Front of India (PFI) leader Subair (43) on April 15 allegedly by some friends of the RSS leader, police had said earlier.
Ramesh,a very close friend of Sanjith,along with two others had allegedly planned and also carried out the murder of Subair as he believed that the PFI leader was responsible for his friend’s death.
All three accused of killing the PFI leader were RSS workers,police had said.
In retaliation for Subair’s killing,RSS leader S K Srinivasan (45) was killed on April 16.The two persons who were arrested on Monday were allegedly the conspirators involved in Srinivasan’s murder, while five out of the six attackers are still at large, the ADGP said.
The officer had earlier said those involved in Srinivasan’s murder had initially made attempts to kill two other RSS leaders and on failing to find their intended targets who had gone into hiding they targeted Srinivasan.
Most of the arrested accused in the Srinivasan case are workers of the PFI and its political offshoot Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), police have said.
Srinivasan,a former district leader and office-bearer of RSS,was attacked by a six-member gang at his motorbike shop in Melamuri near here on April 16,barely 24 hours after Subair was hacked to death at Elappully in the district while he was returning home along with his father after offering prayers in a mosque on April 15 afternoon.
The back-to-back killings involving BJP/RSS and SDPI/PFI is the second such incident in the past few months in Kerala.
In December last,a leader of the SDPI and a leader of the BJP were murdered in Alappuzha within 24 hours.
