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Two more held in `fake' accident case

Staff Reporter

ALAPPUZHA: A special investigation team led by Deputy Superintendent of Police P.A. Johnson inquiring into the Kanichukulangara `fake' accident arrested two more accused on Friday. With this, the number of arrested in the case has gone up to five. Three persons, including Everest Chit Funds owner T.G. Ramesh, were killed in the `accident.'

According to the police, the arrested were G. Shibi (28) alias `Chief,' Thundiyil House, Chettuva, Thrissur district; and V. Unnikrishnan alias Chimbuttan, Kadathu Kadavil, Cherayi. Both were arrested from Kollam KSRTC bus station on Saturday morning. They arrived at Kollam from Parassala. They were produced before the Alappuzha Judicial First Class Magistrate Court on Saturday evening.

On the latest developments, Mr. Johnson said the police had collected evidence to include managing directors of the Himalaya group of companies N.S. Sajith and K.M. Binish among the accused. He said they had actively participated in the conspiracy hatched by R. Saju alias `Mrigam,' a top employee of the Himalaya group, to kill the Everest Chit Funds owner. The police said they would include Sajith and Binish as the sixth and the seventh accused respectively.

The police said that Shibi had confessed that he was with Saju in a Toyota Qualis near Kanichukulamgara when the `fake' accident took place. Unnikrishnan helped the accused hide, the police said.

Mr. Johnson said the police should now verify the confessions of the arrested. He said the police had found that Shibi and Unnikrishnan had received Rs.3.5 lakhs from the Himalaya group to buy the Toyata Qualis. Mr. Johnson said one more person needed to be arrested other than Sajith and

Binish in with the case. He expressed the hope that the police would be able to arrest all the accused in the case without delay.

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