Police likely to issue another summons to Surendran for questioning in Kodakara heist case
The Hindu
BJP State president failed to appear before investigation team on July 6
The police are reportedly poised to issue a second summons to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State president K. Surendran for questioning in connection with the theft of unaccounted cash from a car at Kodakara in Thrissur on April 3. Mr. Surendran had not answered the initial summons which asked him to appear before the investigating officer at the Thrissur Police Club on July 6. The leader had pleaded inability to ensure personal appearance given the BJP State office-bearers’ meeting in Kasaragod. Moreover, the BJP had alleged that Mr. Surendran was the victim of a political witch-hunt. The party reportedly felt that the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government hoped to score a propaganda win by making a political spectacle out of Mr. Surendran’s arrival at the Police Club.A crowd comprising farmers, researchers, professors, students, and horticulture enthusiasts thronged the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru, on Friday for the inaugural ceremony of the Triphal Diversity Show which showcased 300 mango, 100 jackfruit, and 100 banana genotypes in collaboration with ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli.
The State government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Additional Director-General of Police, Manish Kharbikar of the Economic Offences division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the alleged multi-crore scam in the government-run Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.