Another case filed against Elamaram Kareem

KOZHIKODE: Vadakara police have registered another case against CPM state secretariat member Elamaram Kareem for threatening an officer in the special investigation team probing the T P Chandrasekharan murder case.
A case has been registered against Kareem under Section 117 (e) of the Kerala Police Act (threatening a police officer with the intention of preventing him from discharging his duties).Kareem, who is an MLA from Beypore, had named crime branch ASI K Raveendran in his speech during the Yuva Shakthi rally organized at Vadakara recently.
He alleged that it was the ASI who took the photograph of hammer and sickle tattooed on the hand of Sijith, one of the accused, on his mobile phone and sent it to others. Posters had appeared against the ASI in his native place in Memunda near Vadakara.
A few days ago police had slapped a case against Kareem on charges of threatening DySP K V Santhosh, the investigating officer in the case. Kareem alleged that Santhosh had been torturing the accused who were in police custody.