11 involved in Jayakrishnan murder identified

KOZHIKODE: Police have identified 11 persons who murdered K T Jayakrishnan, the former state vice-president of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha. He was hacked to death in a classroom at East Mokeri UP School in 1999.
The names of these persons were revealed during the interrogation of T K Rajeesh, who has apparently confessed that he was one among the killer gang.
The special investigation team (SIT) probing the T P Chandrasekharan murder case, will send the report containing the details they had collected on the Jayakrishnan case to the state police chief. He will take a decision on the possibility of a re-investigation after getting the report.
Kousalya, Jayakrishnan's mother, will meet chief minister Oommen Chandy on Thursday and request him to order a re-investigation into the case. Rajeesh had told police that the real culprits were still at large and that all except one arrested in the case had nothing to do with it.
BJP-RSS leadership said they had had doubts about those arrested in the case being the real culprits. "We had told police at that time itself that some of those in the gang were from Kottiyodi near Pattiam," a senior RSS leader said. There was an attempt on the life of the then RSS Kannur district karyavahak Suresh Babu a few days before Jayakrishnan's murder. A gang with weapons and explosives had come to the Kannur collectorate, where he was working, to attack him. But they were arrested by police with weapons.
"The case was sabotaged by a DSP .If those arrested were properly interrogated, police could have collected some information on the conspiracy to murder Jayakrishnan" he alleged.