Case registered against P K Basheer

MALAPPURAM: The police Monday registered a First Information Report (FIR) against Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) leader P K Basheer, MLA, for making provocative speech leading to murder. Police said FIR has been lodged with Edavanna Police Station in Malappuram district on complaint of relatives of two brothers, who were hacked to death by masked men last night.


According to the complainants, the duo, Kolakkadan Azad (45) and his brother Kolakkadan Aboobacker (46), were hacked by the assailants following the speech delivered by Mr Basheer at a function few days ago, the police added. Azad and Aboobacker, injured seriously in the attack last night, succumbed in two separate hospitals in Kozhikode this morning.