KOZHIKODE: The special police team constituted to probe into the involvement of any external or internal organisations and to expose the larger conspiracy in the planning and execution of Marad massacre of 2003 took the statement of BJP former state president C K Padmanabhan here on Friday.The BJP leader was summoned to the Crime Branch-Crime Investigation Department (CB-CID) office here and was testified before the police team led by CB-CID SP C M Pradeepkumar.
Padmanabhan, who was the party president at the time of the incident, informed the police that the former BJP state president P S Sreedharan Pillai was not entrusted by the party leadership with holding compromise talks with leaders of the Indian Union Muslim League to bring normalcy in the area. Besides, the BJP leader said he did not know about any such moves.
Recently, a report in a Malayalam daily mentioned that Sadiq Ali Thangal was entrusted by then Panakad Thangal to hold discussions with Sreedharan Pillai, which the latter endorsed in the report. This had erupted a controversy as the BJP and the RSS leadership strongly denying the matter.
Following this, the CB-CID SP has already taken the statements of BJP state president V Muralidharan and district president P Reghunath in this connection.
The special investigation team was constituted by the previous LDF government after the Centre had rejected the demand for a CBI probe in the Marad incident in which nine men were killed.
The CBI probe was requested as Thomas P Joseph commission which inquired into the incident suggested a probe by an independent agency to expose the larger conspiracy.
Following the rejection from the Centre, the government constituted a special team in 2010.
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