Key conspirator in SFI leader's murder held
Kochi, July 26 : A law student, suspected to be a key conspirator involved in the brutal murder of an SFI member in a Kerala college this month, was taken into custody on Thursday even as another suspect surrendered in a court and was sent to judicial custody, police said.
Campus Front of India State Secretary Mohammed Riffa, hailing from Kannur district and a law student, was arrested from Bengaluru in Karnataka by a special Kerala Police team.
Police said Riffa was the mastermind in the fatal stabbing of 19-year-old Abhimanyu during a clash between supporters of the Students Federation of India and the Campus Front of India on July 2 due to a dispute over pasting of posters at Maharajas College here.
Faziludeen, one of the suspects, surrendered in a court near here on Thursday and was remanded to judicial custody.
Prime suspect Mohammed Ali was arrested last week, following which police were looking for Riffa, who was on the run.
Both Abhimanyu and Ali, who is also Alappuzha District President of Campus Front of India, were students of Maharajas College.
Police had said that 15 persons were directly involved in the murder, of which eight have been arrested.
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Power struggle in ruling Cong has 'created massive confusion' in Karnataka: BJP leader Ashoka
Bengaluru (PTI): BJP leader R Ashoka on Friday claimed that the ongoing power struggle between Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his deputy D K Shivakumar has created massive confusion in Karnataka.
He remarked that the proverb “when two people fight, the third one benefits” has come true, as AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge is also now making efforts to become Chief Minister.
Speaking to reporters here, Ashoka said the entire government has turned into a house of confusion due to the alleged power tussle.
Kharge’s new statement has only added to the chaos, he said.
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge had on Friday said that no date has been fixed yet to discuss possible leadership change in Karnataka.
This came a day after Kharge said there was no change of CM in Karnataka "for now" and that the leadership issue in the state would be resolved soon.
The BJP leader said that Kharge too has aspirations and that he was cheated earlier.
"Perhaps he has received a green signal from the Congress high command to become CM. Everyone is already saying Kharge should become CM. Kharge himself has declared, “I am ready to become CM.” Despite many attempts in the past, he never became CM. Now he is trying to seize the opportunity," the Leader of Opposition in the state assembly said.
According to him, the situation in Congress has perfectly become a case of “two people fighting, third one benefits.”
