KOCHI: The Kanichukulangara Murder Action Council has demanded constitution of a special police task force to trace Sajith, the key accused in the July 20 triple murder and co-owner of the Cherayi-based Himalaya Group of companies.

At a news conference here on Wednesday, action council functionaries V.A. Hakeem and C.M. Devassy said even 10 months after the "stage-managed accident" on the National Highway at Kanichukulangara (in Alappuzha district) that killed three persons, the police have not been able to nab Sajith.

They urged the new LDF Government set up a special team with the sole aim of tracing Sajith.

One of the two managing directors of the company, Sajith, has been accused of plotting the murder of Suresh, who had once been a key aide but had later turned a business rival.

Mr. Hakeem, general convenor of the council, said that on May 20, a vehicle rally of council leaders would leave Cherayi for Thiruvananthapuram to meet senior Government functionaries. En route, they would address several meetings of people who had invested crores of rupees in the Himalaya Chitties.

They would meet the Chief Minister and the Home Minister to urge them to appoint a special task force to nab Sajith.

The council leaders would also hand over a panel of Dy. SP-level police officers with proven integrity who could possibly constitute the task force, Mr. Hakeem said.

Mr. Hakeem said the LDF leaders, especially Chief Minister-designate V.S. Achuthanandan, had taken special interest in the murder case and hoped that the new LDF Government would give priority to the investigation.

Mr. Devassy, convener, reiterated his allegation that a senior Congress leader was linked to the Himalaya group.

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