CPI(M) leader’s bail plea in RSS activist murder case rejected

Jayarajan, surrendered before a local court on Friday morning, a day after the Kerala High Court rejected his bail application. He has been remanded in judicial custody for a month.

Refusing to accept the contentions of Mr Jayarajan that the use of country bomb will not draw an offence under Unlawful Activity Prevention Act, the court said, “bomb is a bomb whether it is country bomb or factory bomb or whether it is made in the armament factory”.

A former legislator of the Communist Party of India-Marxist, the 63-year-old Jayarajan had been refused anticipatory bail thrice by a lower court, following which he approached the high court.

Thalassery: CPM leader P Jayarajan, who surrendered before court after the court rejected his bail plea, has been shifted to the Pariyaram Medical College Cell.

However, the High Court said it was not giving any opinion on merit of the case.

“Let Jayarajan’s arrest be a lesson for the CPI(M)”, he said, adding that the CPI(M) should show the courage to take action against those accused in murder cases.

However, the strength of the argument may depend on the report and the statement that may be made by Dr Ashraf before the CBI, who has summoned him in this regard.

Opposing the bail plea of Jayarajan, CBI submitted that the CPI(M) strongman was the “kingpin and mastermind” of the criminal conspiracy hatched to murder E Manoj and claimed that it has materials to prove the charges against him.

The CBI, which is investigating Manoj’s murder, named Jayarajan as an accused.

Manoj, a district functionary of RSS, was hacked to death at Kathiroor in Kannur district on September 1, 2014 allegedly by a group of CPM workers.