KOZHIKODE: The Marad Judicial Inquiry Commission will examine the People's Democratic Party (PDP) leader Abdul Nasir Maudany who is an accused in the Coimbatore serial blast case at the Coimbatore Central Jail on December 10.

The Commission Thomas P. Joseph allowed a petition filed by National Development Front (NDF) counsel M. Abdul Lateef at a sitting here on Saturday. Two other accused in the blast case who are lodged in the Coimbatore Central Jail, M.V. Subair and A.T. Mohammed Asraf, also will be examined.

The NDF moved the Commission on the premise that their names had figured in the depositions of police officers examined by the panel earlier.

Eight witnesses of the NDF were examined by the Commission on Saturday. Those examined included the former Kathirur Sub-Inspector T.K. Viswambharan; former Mavelikara Circle Inspector Varghese Kurien; former Iritty Circle Inspector K. Salim; the managing director of Maharani Travels Abdul Aziz; partner of Rolex Travels Abdul Devargovil; Shakthi Medicals managing director Abdul Nasser; P. Abdurehman of Kannur, an accused in the Kozhikode ice-cream parlour sex racket case; M.Aziz of Kozhikode; and NDF chairman K. Syyed.

The depositions related to cases between the NDF, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and other organisations.

The Commission is inquiring into the massacre of nine persons at Marad on May 2, 2003.

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