Opposition seeks to turn Kerala HC decision upholding convictions in T.P. Chandrasekharan murder case against LDF govt. and CPI(M)
The Hindu
The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) Opposition in Kerala has sought to politically weaponise the High Court order upholding the conviction of the 12 persons accused in the 2012 murder of CPI(M) dissident and Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMP) founder T.P. Chandrasekharan at Onchiyam in Kozhikode to put the Pinarayi Vijayan-led government and the ruling party on the defensive.
The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) Opposition in Kerala has sought to politically weaponise the High Court order upholding the conviction of the 12 persons accused in the 2012 murder of CPI(M) dissident and Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMP) founder T.P. Chandrasekharan at Onchiyam in Kozhikode to put the Pinarayi Vijayan-led government and the ruling party on the defensive.
Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan said the High Court had reasserted the “complicity” of the CPI(M)‘s top leadership in the heinous political murder that shocked Kerala’s conscience.
For one, Mr. Satheesan said, the High Court had nullified the trial court’s acquittal of two CPI(M) apparatchiks charged in the crime.
He said the UDF was determined to stay the course till the top conspirators who plotted and sanctioned Chandrasekharan’s murder were brought to book.
He said the UDF would extend unflinching legal, moral and political support to RMP leader and legislator K.K. Rema’s spirited pursuit of justice for her murdered husband.
Mr. Satheesan said the UDF would challenge the High Court’s order upholding the trial court acquittal of CPI(M) Kozhikode district secretary K. Mohanan in the case.
He said the High Court order was an oblique censure of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government’s repeated attempts to subvert the law by cushioning the prison time of the convicts through cyclical paroles and access to digital devices, including mobile phones.
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