Idukki: The dawn-to-dusk hartal called by CPM in Idukki to protest arrest of party leader M M Mani for his refusal to turn up for a polygraph test in connection with a case registered in the wake of his controversial speech, hit normal life in the high range district on Thursday. Mani was arrested and remanded to judicial custody on Wednesday for rejecting the police notice to undergo brain mapping in connection with a political murder case, re-opened in the wake of his speech in which he said his party had in the past eliminated some foes in Idukki.
The protest had been peaceful but crippled mobility of people as buses kept off the road and shops remained closed. The shutdown also affected works in plantations, for which the district is famous, police said. CPI and other left parties had refused to join the hartal though they also resented the arrest of Mani, a senior most left leader of the district. CPM had accused the Congress led LDF government of flouting due procedures in the arrest of Mani and dubbed it a politically-motivated act to deflect public attention from "failures" of the government.
Police had registered a criminal case against Mani and two other party activists by re-opening the murder of an INTUC activist in Idukki district 30 years ago in the light of his speech. The special investigation team probing the case against Mani had last week served a notice to him, seeking to know whether
03:21 PM, Nov 22, 2012
Idukki: Senior CPM leader M M Mani was on Wednesday arrested for declining to turn up for a polygraph test as part of the probe in connection with his controversial speech in which he said his party had in the past eliminated some of its political rivals in Idukki district. Mani was arrested from his house at Kunnhithanni near here and was taken to the police station at Nedumkandam. He...
09:18 AM, Nov 21, 2012
Idukki: The Kerala Police on Wednesday served notice on Communist Party of India-Marxist's (CPM) former Idukki district secretary M.M. Mani to appear for a polygraph (lie-detector) test. Mani told media persons here that he would seek legal advice on what he should do next. "I will also speak with my doctor and then decide on what needs to be done," said Mani after receiving the notice. The former Idukki district...
02:52 PM, Nov 14, 2012
Idukki: The Special Investigating Team (SIT) probing various charges against former CPM Idukki secretary M M Mani is likely to file an additional affidavit in the Supreme Court in connection with the speech made by Mani at 10th mile near Adimali on Friday. As the Supreme Court is not likely to take up the case on Monday with Mani seeking ten days time, the prosecution has sufficient time to file...
12:54 PM, Aug 13, 2012
Munnar: After running into controversy again, CPI-M leader MM Mani on Sunday strongly refuted having made a speech two days back in which he purportedly said the party was involved in the murder of an INTUC leader in Idukki district. Mani's denial came a day after Malayalam television channels aired an audio of the speech purportedly made by him at a public meeting at Pathammile near Munnar last week. "This...
02:52 PM, Aug 12, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Veteran CPM leader V S Achuthanandan, who has been let off with a public censure by the party central committee, has offered to admit certain lapses which have pushed the party into a difficult situation. But he would continue to fight the rightist aberrations of the state party leadership, according to CPM sources. This became clear on Tuesday, the second day of the two-day state committee meeting here. The...
12:01 PM, Jul 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed controversial CPM leader M M Manis plea for quashing the direction for further probe into his public speech about the party having systematically annihilated political opponents in Idduki district 30 years ago. A Bench comprising Justice P Sathasivam and Justice Ranjan Gogoi said, We are not inclined to interfere with the order of the High Court at this point of time. The...
12:13 PM, Jul 24, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday is expected to hear controversial CPI(M) leader MM Mani's plea to quash FIRs registered against him over his speech on elimination of political foes. Mani had earlier moved the Kerala High Court saying if such tendencies are not checked, it would sound the "death knell" of democracy. Justice S Satishchandran, however, dismissed his plea saying the speech and the revelations prima facie discloses...
12:32 PM, Jul 23, 2012
New Delhi: Controversial Kerala CPM leader MM Mani on Wednesday reached police station for questioning. A case was filed against Mani last month after he claimed the CPM eliminated at least 3 political rivals in the 1980s. Earlier, Kerala Police on Wednesday set a deadline of 10 am for Mani to come for questioning or else will be arrested. The deadline was set on Tuesday when the Idukki district leader...
10:01 AM, Jul 04, 2012
Kochi: CPM leader M M Mani may not appear for interrogation before the special investigation team (SIT) on Monday. Instead, he will approach the Supreme Court against the Kerala High Court order dismissing his petition seeking to quash FIRs registered against him over his controversial remarks on eliminating political foes. Meanwhile, Mani told Express said a final decision regarding appearing before the SIT has not been taken. It is learnt...
10:50 AM, Jul 02, 2012
Kochi: The Kerala High Court on Thursday dismissed a petition by controversial Marxist leader MM Mani, seeking to quash FIRs registered against him over his speech on elimination of political foes, saying if such tendencies are not checked, it would sound the "death knell" of democracy. Dismissing the petition, Justice S Satishchandran said the speech and the revelations prima facie discloses commission of cognisable offence, which fully justifies registration of...
02:10 PM, Jun 28, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Following the murder of a former CPM leader and the widening rift within its ranks, the party, after a long time, would be seen on the back foot during the Kerala assembly session which started on Monday. Also, the ruling Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) with a thin majority of five seats, expects to increase their tally by one after the Neyattinkara by-election results come out on Friday. In...
12:17 PM, Jun 11, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Some of the political murders of the 1980s and 90s are likely to be reinvestigated based on clues obtained by police during the probe into the murder of Marxist rebel TP Chandrasekharan and the controversial speech of senior CPM leader MM Mani. The most sensational among these cases is the brutal murder of Yuva Morcha leader and school teacher KT Jayakrishnan in front of his primary class students at...
03:41 PM, Jun 10, 2012
Kozhikode: In a major breakthrough in the TP Chandrasekharan murder case, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) has taken Patyam Kottayodi TK Rajeesh alias TK into custody from Mumbai. He is allegedly one of the masterminds in the conspiracy that led to the murder on May 4. The SIT took him from Mumbai a few days ago and brought him to Kozhikode on Thursday, sources said. The arrest of Rajeesh will...
07:38 PM, Jun 08, 2012
Idukki (Kerala): A day after he was removed as CPI(M)'s Idukki district Secretary for his controversial speech, MM Mani on Thursday said he had expected the disciplinary action as he had committed a "mistake". Mani, however, alleged some local Congress leaders and a section of the media had colluded and "blown his speech out of proportion" and cast him and the party in poor light. Faced with a huge embarrassment...
02:40 PM, Jun 07, 2012
New Delhi: Kerala CPM leader MM Mani's case regarding his controversial speeches is to come for hearing on Thursday in the High Court. Mani had approached the court earlier asking to cancel the cases against him and quash the FIRs. The former Idukki District Secretary was sacked from his post after his speeches that had embarrassed the CPM. Cracking the whip, CPM on Wednesday removed its Idukki district secretary MM...
06:40 AM, Jun 07, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Cracking the whip, CPM on Wednesday removed its Idukki district secretary MM Mani from his post for his controversial speech that the party had eliminated political foes in the past, which had embarrassed the organisation and invited an all round condemnation. The CPM state Secretariat said action against Mani was taken as he had deviated from the party's stand in the controversial speech made at a public meeting in...
01:23 AM, Jun 07, 2012
New Delhi: The Kerala Police have summoned CPM's Idukki District Secretary MM Mani over the controversial statements that he made about CPM rivals being killed. The CPM is also likely to decide what action they might take on the issue in the second and final day of the state-level meet. Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Tuesday rejected CPM's charge that case registered against Mani for his controversial speech stating...
06:51 AM, Jun 06, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Tuesday rejected CPI-M's charge that case registered against party Idukki district secretary MM Mani for his controversial speech stating that the Left party had eliminated at least three of its political foes years ago. Reacting to CPI-M state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan's statement in this regard, Chandy said here 'it is the CPI-M which is viewing the issue politically and in a wrong way'....
03:42 AM, Jun 06, 2012
Idukki: In fresh trouble for a senior CPI-M functionary in Kerala, police on Monday booked MM Mani in another murder case on the basis of his controversial speech on eliminating political foes. For the first time, the case naming a specific murder of a man in 1980s was registered against Idukki district CPI-M Secretary Mani and four others in Rajakad police station in the district, police said. The case listing...
01:32 AM, Jun 05, 2012
