Kochi: The Kerala High Court on Monday granted bail to CPM Kannur District Secretary P Jayarajan, arrested in connection with the politically sensitive murder of IUML activist Abdul Shukkoor in February.
Justice Babu P Mathew Joseph granted the bail and directed Jayarajan to furnish a bond of Rs 25,000 and two sureties for the like amount.
The court turned down the prosecution plea to restrain Jayarajan, arrested on August 1, from entering Kannur. The charge sheet in the case was filed in a lower court in Kannur on August 23 listing 33 accused, all of whom are either CPM workers or supporters.
While Jayarajan and MLA TV Rajesh have been charged under section 118 of the IPC for not trying to prevent the murder even after getting information on the conspiracy. Shukkoor was murdered on February 20 at Keezharara in Kannur....
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01:25 PM, Aug 27, 2012
Kochi: The Kerala High Court will on Monday hear CPM leader P Jayarajan's bail petition in connection with the Abdul Shukkoor murder case. The court had asked the state government to present its view on the bail petition on Monday. The High Court on Tuesday granted bail to CPM MLA T V Rajesh, who was arrested in connection with the murder of the IUML activist. Rajesh, charged under IPC Section...
11:56 AM, Aug 27, 2012
New Delhi: The CPM on Thursday declared a hartal in Kerala to protest against the arrest of its senior leader P Jayarajan in the Shukkoor murder case. The hartal brought the Kannur district to a standstill. Two companies of the Rapid Action Force reached Kannur to control the law and order situation. The CPM has called the arrest a political conspiracy by the ruling front. There was widespread unrest in...
09:59 AM, Aug 02, 2012
Kannur: The citadel of CPM politics in the state is agog with rumours that party district secretary P Jayarajan, who has been summoned by the police for a third round of interrogation on Wednesday in connection with Abdul Shukkoor murder case, is likely to be arrested towards the end of the grilling. The questioning in connection with the conspiracy behind the murder of the young Muslim League worker is scheduled...
12:59 PM, Aug 01, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: A senior Kerala Communist Party of India-Marxist leader has been arrested in connection with the murder of Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) worker Abdul Shukkoor. CPI-M leader P Jayarajan was arrested by the special police team investigating the Shukkoor murder case. The special team served a notice on Jayarajan to appear before the team at 11 AM on Wednesday for questioning. He was remanded to judicial custody for 14...
12:14 PM, Aug 01, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: A senior CPI(M) member created a flutter in the Kerala Assembly on Monday by displaying two teargas grenades, allegedly used by police to disperse a student protest in Thiruvananthapuram last week. Speaker G Karthikeyan and Home Minister Thiruvanchur Radkahrishnan took strong exception to the conduct of EP Jayarajan, who exhibited the grenades while accusing police of "brutally" suppressing the protest organised by his party's campus wing Students Federation of...
01:24 PM, Jun 18, 2012
Kannur (Kerala): Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) leader P Jayarajan on Friday expressed surprise at his name being linked to the murder of former party colleague T.P. Chandrasekharan, and alleged this was a attempt by the ruling Congress to tarnish the party's image. "I do not see this as a personal attack on me, instead this is a concerted move by a section of the media and the Congress-led United...
06:31 PM, May 18, 2012
