THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Those arrested in the T P Chandraseskharan murder case are the actual accused and the usual practice of saving the culprits and producing someone else before law in political murder cases would not workout in this case, Home Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan said here on Thursday.Addressing a press conference, the Minister said that right now, handing over the investigation to some other agency was not under the consideration of the government and would be considered only if Chandrasekharan’s wife Rema raises such a demand. Thiruvanchoor said that he would not interfere in the investigation at any stage as it was going on in the right direction. When his attention was brought to the allegations by the CPM against Special Investigation Team member and Vadakara Rural SP Raj Mohan, the Minister said that it was the former LDF Government which recommended to confer IPS on the officer and sent him for NIA training. 5000 communal violence cases in KasargodThiruvanchoor said that there were around 5,000 cases and 11,000 accused in connection with the communal violence in Kasargod and only a few were convicted. A package of Rs 5.85 crore has been approved by the government to strengthen the police force in Kasargod against the backdrop of frequent communal violence in the district.At present the police have to deployed from Kannur to Kasargod in an emergency. “175 more police personnel will be deployed in the district and a new barrack will be opened at Periya in the district to accommodate 200 armed forces,” he said.The allegation that DySP Abdul Rasheed, the accused in the Unnithan murder attempt case, is getting undue facilities at Poojappura Central Prison will be inquired, Thiruvanchoor said and added that reforms of prisons were under the consideration of the government.
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