Those arrested in Jayakrishnan murder have no role in it: T.K. Rajeesh

Saturday, June 10, 2012: TK Rajeesh, one of the key accused in the TP Chandrasekharan murder case, has told the investigators that all the accused except one in the case pertaining to the brutal killing of Yuva Morcha leader KT Jayakrishnan in Kannur in 1999 were persons with no role in the incident.
They were named accused by the police as per a list provided by the CPI (M), he has said.
Jayakrishnan, a teacher of Mokeri UP School in East Panoor, and Yuva Morcha vice-president, was hacked to death in front of students on December 1, 1999. Rajeesh told the probe team that cops had then arrested only Acharuparabath Pradeepan from the killer gang. The rest of the gang members, including Rajeesh, were not arrested.
Rajeesh, who was arrested from Maharashtra, also reportedly confessed to the special investigation team that he was involved in three murders, including that of Jayakrishnan, in Kannur. A top CPM leader in Kannur had ordered these murders, he told the police.
Five of the accused in Jayakrishnan murder case – Pradeepan, K Surendran, N Shaji, C Dinesh Babu and K K Anil – were sentenced to death by the Thalassery sessions court, while the fifth accused, P Rajan, was acquitted.
The Kerala high court upheld the lower court’s verdict, but the Supreme Court later acquitted four, and commuted Pradeepan’s death sentence to life imprisonment. Pradeepan was later released from jail following a remission during the LDF rule. He was the local secretary of the CPM when Jayakrishnan was murdered. He is now CPM’s Panur area committee member.
Rajeesh also told the police that he was an admirer of a Kannur-based political leader, who was allegedly behind many political clashes and murders.Rajeesh would be subjected to an identification parade at the central jail here on Monday. Eye-witnesses to the May 4 attack on Chandrasekharan would be asked to identify the suspect.
Meanwhile, a police case has been registered against the Cooperative Hospital in Koothuparamaba for trying to mislead the TP murder investigation. Sijith, allegedly a member of the TP killer gang, had received treatment to an injury sustained during the TP murder from the hospital.