KOCHI: The Kerala High Court on Friday held that there was no legal impediment in arresting the two CPM leaders involved in the 2006 Thalassery Muhammed Fasal murder case.The CBI submitted details on the active involvement of two leaders - CPM Kannur district secretariat member Karayil Rajan of Kadiroor and Thiruvangad local committee secretary Karayil Chandrashekharan - along with other CPM sympathisers in the murder.Considering the bail plea of the two CPM leaders, Justice P S Gopinathan held that there was no legal impediment to arrest them. In its counter affidavit against the bail pleas, the CBI made it clear that the CPM leaders’ allegation that the RSS was involved in Fasal murder is against facts.“The CBI had earlier submitted that the petitioners (CPM leaders) will not be arrested till they file a counter affidavit. Hence, the arrest was restricted. Now they have filed the affidavit. So there is no hindrance in moving forward,” the court said.NDF activist Fasal of Madapedika in Kodiyeri was murdered on October 22, 2006, by a group of CPM sympathisers, within days of his defecting from the CPM to the NDF. The CPM had denied any role in the murder and alleged that RSS was behind the murder.On Friday, the CBI submitted that the two CPM local leaders had hatched a deep-seated criminal conspiracy to murder Fasal on account of political animosity.The CPM leadership was worried as Fasal was luring youngsters to leave the CPM and join NDF. Fasal had also convened a meeting of the NDF members at Madapedika, a strong-hold of the CPM, the CBI pointed out.“The two CPM leaders were the masterminds in designing and planning to eliminate Fasal. They executed the crime by employing CPM sympathisers,” the CBI said.The petitioners were summoned for interrogation as per notice. The revelation made by the co-accused as well as other evidence pointed to an active involvement of the petitioners. They are principal conspirators in the murder case.
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