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`CBI should also probe first Marad riot'

Staff Reporter

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala Muslim Jama-ath Council has urged the State Government to bring the first Marad killings and the violent incidents that followed the second Marad killings within the ambit of the CBI inquiry on Marad announced recently.

This demand was made at press conference here on Monday by Council general secretary A. Pookunju.

He said though it was widely acknowledged that the Marad killings of 2003 were precipitated by the killings in 2002, the Marad commission had probed only the second killings and made observations about it. These findings can only be termed as being partisan, Mr. Pookunju said. Even though the Commission itself had stated that killings in 2003 were to avenge the death of Abobaker, Kunjikoya and Yoonus who were killed in 2002, its finding that the IUML and the NDF had a role in the Marad riots can only be seen as a move to paint the entire Muslim community as culprits, he said.

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