THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Opposition boycotted Assembly towards the fag end of the sitting on Thursday alleging that Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan was leaving ambiguities over an intelligence report that suggested larger conspiracy behind the Marad massacre.

While leader of the Opposition Oommen Chandy, who led the walkout, maintained that neither the then Chief Minister A. K. Antony nor the Principal Secretary (Home) had received the report through proper channel, the Minister asserted that the report was with the Intelligence headquarters. Mr. Balakrishnan also promised to show the report to the Speaker and to the leader of the Opposition (through the Speaker).

The Minister also announced that the Government would be referring matters connected with the report to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for inquiry as part of its probe into the larger conspiracy.

Mr. Balakrishnan said that it was unlikely that the then Chief Minister was unaware of the report. However, it would be a serious matter if the report had actually been kept away from Mr. Antony. So, the matter needed to be probed.

He said that the report, received after the Marad incident, spoke of the financier of the massacre and involvement of two Ministers of Mr. Antony's Cabinet with him. The report had been placed before the Marad Judicial Enquiry Commission as a confidential document and the Commission had expressed surprise over Mr. Antony's averment that he had not seen it.

Mr. Chandy maintained that a report could be called an intelligence report only if it was vetted and submitted to the Chief Minister, Principal Secretary (Home), the Director General of Police and the Director General of Police (Intelligence) through proper channel.

There would be only five copies of the report including those with the Intelligence wing of the police.

Any report given by a field officer would not automatically become an intelligence report.

Replying to some points made by members during discussion on the Kerala Appropriation Bill, the Minister said that some forces were trying to undermine law and order.

The police had been directed to take stern action in cases such as attack on places of worship.

The reported circulation of fake notes in large quantities was being probed.

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