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Friday, Sep 03, 2004

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Marad case: `no probe held on role of parties'

By Our Staff Reporter

KOZHIKODE, SEPT. 2. The Crime Branch Crime Investigation Department (CB CID) Superintendent of Police (SP), T.V. Kamalakshan, who led the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in the Marad massacre case, has disclosed that no investigation had been conducted to ascertain whether the accused are linked to any political party or organisation.

In his deposition before the Marad Judicial Inquiry Commission at its sitting here today, Mr. Kamalakshan said that he did not remember whether any of the accused had admitted that they were activists of the National Development Front (NDF).

No special investigation had been carried out when some of the accused in the case had given similar statements that they were former workers of a particular organisation, he said in reply to a question.

Mr. Kamalakshan said that some of the accused had visited an accused involved in the Coimbatore serial blast case to interview him for a magazine. No further investigation had been done in this regard. None of the accused in the Marad case was involved in the Coimbatore blast case, he said.

External forces

Replying to queries from lawyers he said that the Crime Branch did not have any information that external forces were involved in the killings on the Marad beach on May 2, 2003. There were no police records to show that Aboobacker, who was killed in the communal riots in January 2002, had worked in any political party or organisation, Mr. Kamalakshan said.

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