KOTTAYAM: The police team probing the murder of BJP leader Ranjith Sreenivasan has arrested two SDPI workers directly involved in the murder. Both are natives of Alappuzha. They had escaped from the state after the murder and were held from Bengaluru on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, district police chief G Jaidev said that the details of the arrested could be disclosed only after conducting their identification parade before Ranjith’s mother Vinodini and wife Lisha, who both had witnessed the murder. Earlier, five SDPI workers were arrested in connection with Ranjith murder. They were charged for destroying evidence and helping the accused.
Meanwhile, the investigation team got the custody of nine accused who were remanded in the murder of SDPI state secretary K S Shan.
Shan was knocked down from his bike by a car at Mannanchery around 7.30pm on December 18 and was stabbed by a group of assailants. He succumbed to his injuries at a hospital around midnight.
BJP OBC Morcha state secretary Ranjith Sreenivasan, 44, was murdered in Alappuzha town around 6.30am on December 19 after around 12 armed men barged into his house and hacked him to death in front of his wife, mother and younger daughter.
Both murders happened within a short span of time, prompting speculation on intelligence failure and lack of adequate precautionary measures on the part of the police. Those directly involved in both the murders escaped from the state and police teams are in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka to nab the remaining accused.
