Daijiworld Media Network – Kasargod (SP)

Kasargod, Jan 8: A single-judge bench of Kerala High Court, of which Justice V Ramkumar is the presiding officer, has rejected the bail petitions moved by the accused, relating to the murder of Abdul Jabbar, a youth Congress activist, on November 3, 2009. At the same time, the bench has directed Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to complete the investigation into the murder as early as possible, as the accused continue to be in judicial custody.

Accused in the case, CPM Kumble area committee secretary, Sudhakar Master, party’s Enmakaje committee member, Abdulla Kunhi Nadubail, Abdul Aziz from Paivalike, Ravi Pachchambala, Abdul Rashid, and Ramakrishna, had filed bail petitions. Their bail petitions had earlier been rejected by the High Court. The applications thereupon, had come up before the single judge bench on Friday January 7. The court felt that the government, under political pressure, had tried to sabotage the entire case, with the help of the policemen, and that the policemen had tried to name people uninvolved with the case as accused, and that only after the public outcry, did they add the names of real culprits in the case.

It may be recalled that Abdul Jabbar, a Congress activist, who was growing in popularity, was waylaid at Ukkinadka when he was moving to his house in a car, and was hit indiscriminately with sharp weapons. Jabbar, who was immediately admitted into a private hospital in the city with critical injuries, could not be saved. The case was handed over to CBI after Jabbar’s father moved the High Court to shift this case from the policemen, as the local policemen were not conducting investigation satisfactorily.

The CBI, in its report, said that a gang led by Baliga Aziz alias Abdul Basheer, which was hired to kill Abdul Jabbar, had assassinated the Congress leader.