India News | Fire Service Officer Arrested in RSS Leader Murder Case in Kerala
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. A fire service personnel was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the murder of an RSS leader last month here, police said.
Palakkad (Kerala), May 10 (PTI) A fire service personnel was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the murder of an RSS leader last month here, police said.
They said the arrested fire service officer was one of the conspirators behind the murder of RSS leader S K Srinivasan on April 16 and also in the killing of another RSS leader -- A Sanjith -- in November last year.
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According to the police, Srinivasan was killed in retaliation for the murder of PFI leader Subair on April 15.
Subair, on the other hand, was killed to avenge the death of Sanjith, police had said earlier.
The investigation in these cases is being carried out under the leadership of ADGP (Law and Order) Vijay Sakhare.
According to the police, the arrested fire service officer was one of the persons who identified the targets for being killed.
The persons arrested so far in connection with Srinivasan's killing are all workers of or affiliated to the Popular Front of India (PFI) or its political offshoot Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), police said.
Those arrested for Subair's murder are all RSS workers, it 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 at a mosque.
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.
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