Daijiworld Media Network – Kasargod (SP)
Kasargod, Jul 7: Reportedly, the policemen have recovered some important documents relating to the incident in which a palm of P J Joseph, lecturer of Newman College, Todupuzha, was chopped off on Sunday last, accusing him of setting an internal examination question paper that contained blasphemous remarks about the prophet. The lecturer’s thigh was also stabbed by an eight-member gang, members of which wielded lethal weapons and bombs, when he was about to return home from church.
Based on the information that Popular Front of India (PFI) activists were involved with the incident, the policemen had raided the home of the Ernakulam district unit secretary of PFI on Tuesday. Several documents and CDS, which reportedly include a few relating to treason, are said to have been recovered by the raiding party. The documents are being verified by a team headed by the deputy superintendent of police, Muvattupuzha. In the meanwhile, district rural superintendent of police, T Vikram, said that Rashid, a PFI activist and friend of K K Ali, who is the owner of the van used by those who attacked Joseph, had posed death threat to circle inspector, Famous Verghese. The policemen raided the house of Rashid, but could not find him there, it is learnt.
Two PFI activists, Jaffer (29) and Ashraf (37), have been arrested by the policemen, relating to the above incident. They were produced in a court, which remanded them to judicial custody for two weeks.
The severed palm of Joseph, which was recovered by the policemen from the spot, has in the meanwhile, been joined through a surgery.