CBI has named former CPM MLA KV Kunjiraman as an accused in the Periya double murder case.
Two Youth Congress workers Kripesh and Sarath Lal were murdered on 17 February 2019 at Periya in Kasaragod district. This was before the Lok Sabha elections and was a major political issue.
The state government had also approached the Supreme Court against the CBI probe in the case. Congress leaders had raised that the government was using the state exchequer to appeal in the matter.
Congress had demanded a CBI inquiry into the matter.
Kunjiraman has been made the 20th accused in the case. According to the CBI, Kunjiraman had helped the accused after the murder.
Besides Kunjiraman, four others including Raghavan Valatholil, Bhaskaran, Gopan and Sandeep have been named as accused.
Apart from the 14 people arrested by the police in the case, five accused were arrested by the CBI yesterday and now five others have been named and another 5 have been made accused. All the accused are CPM workers.
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