KANNUR: Home Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan has said that he had complete faith in the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the murder of Revolutionary Marxist Party leader T P Chandrasekharan.The minister also said that he would never interfere with the investigation of the case. Addressing mediapersons at the Press Club here on Monday, the Home Minister said that he would say nothing on the T P Chandrasekharan murder issue beyond what Opposition Leader V S Achuthanandan had said. The Opposition Leader had no complaints about the probe by the SIT, he said. The Home Minister said that the allegation raised by the CPM leadership that there had been differences of opinion among the investigating officials over the way the investigation was being conducted, was aimed at causing a split among the officials. Asked about the statements of DGP Jacob Punnoose on the issue, the Home Minister said that the former shouldn’t be dragged into political controversies. The SIT can’t be intimidated or pressured by any one as they are officials of proven integrity, he said. The Home Minister said that the most aggrieved person in the case was T P Chandrasekaran’s wife and that if she had any complaint relating to the SIT investigation, the government would take it very seriously, pointing out that so far she hadn’t raised any complaints on the course of investigation. Asked about the statement of Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Mullappally Ramachandran, that the probe into the murder would be handed over to the CBI if it wasn’t proceeding in the right direction, Thiruvanchoor said that he wouldn’t like to comment on it. Replying to another question, the Home Minister said that he wasn’t ready to believe that Union Minister of State for Agriculture K V Thomas would try to interfere with the investigation. Asked about the sit-in stir held in front of the Police Sub-Divisional Office at Vadakara to get one of the alleged suspects released from police custody by the CPM leaders, the Home Minister said that the action of obstructing the duty of a police official was a punishable offence under Sections 186 and 195(A) of the IPC. In reply to another query concerning the threat made by CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan that his party would turn into a ‘burning torch’ if the police continue to raid the offices of the party and stop the party offices from functioning, Thiruvanchoor said that the restoration of a situation in which law-abiding citizens and the children could live without fear was more important.“The government is determined to protect the life and property of the people,” he asserted. A turning point where the brutal murders are to be stopped has reached now, he added. The Home Minister disclosed that the Muslim League leaders in the district here had made a representation to him seeking a CBI probe into the murder of League worker Abdul Shukkoor at Pattuvam.
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