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Date: March 11, 2008
"Blessed are those who are able to die
a natural death in Thalassery."_ Justice V Ramkumar , Kerala High court
The Kerala High Court, on Tuesday, observed
that the only solution to end the violence in Kannur district seemed to be
a timely intervention by the Union government by deploying sufficient forces
that "will not yield to the political or plutocratic clout by those in
powers and out of power," quoting reports.
Justice V. Ramkumar expressed the hope that
there would be a "gubernatorial move to apprise the Central Government
of the urgent need for a permanent prophylactic action to curb further bloodshed
and killings in Kannur District where manslaughter is a competing sport."
The court made these observations while ordering an investigation by the Central
Bureau of Investigation into the murder of Muhammed Fasal, a National Development
Front (NDF) worker in Thalassery. The petitioner, Mariyu, alleged that her
husband was murdered by Communist Party of India (Marxist) activists because
he had defected to the NDF from the party. The court said that there had not
been "any intelligent investigation" in the case.
The court observed that "all-party peace
missions are nothing but a hoax to hoodwink the fickle-minded public."
The court observed that if reports were to be believed, Kannur district, particularly
Thalassery, had, over the years, become "the hotbed of political violence
and carnage of the worst order." "All political parties there seem
to freely indulge in the cult of violence."he added , "Blessed are
those who are able to die a natural death in Thalassery."
He observed that the "Kerala Police was
pandering to the vicious instincts of the influential politicians by shielding
from punishment those who are really guilty and projecting either innocent
persons listed out from party offices or arranging party confidants who volunteer
to go to the dock and eventually to the prison houses at the party's expense."
The high court justice went on "There
were repeated instances of the people's representatives with diabolical designs
barging into police stations to rescue their own party criminals from the
police lock ups."
FROM THE JUDGMENT (Excerpts from the lamentation
of Fasal's widow)
……It is pertinent to note that the
gruesome murder in this case took place in the constituency of Kodiyeri Balakrishnan
the present Home Minister. With a view to throw the investigating agency and
the public off the scent the assailants had planted tridents (thrishuls) near
the dead body so as to create an impression that members of the Rashtreeya
Swayamsevak Sangh ( "RSS" for short) were behind the murder of Fasal.
Even though three CPM workers were taken into custody by
the then investigating officer, after the
sniffer dog had run in to the house of a CPM worker, those three persons were
released from custody at the intervention of the leaders of the
CPM as revealed by Exts. P1 and P2 news items
in two popular dailies………………….. The petitioner
reasonably understands that that the murderers of her late husband are none
other than the members of the CPM and she will not get justice since the CPM
is in power and the Minister who is hailing from that Constituency is controlling
the portfolio of Home…. (P3, 4)
