The two murders of Popular Front of India leader Su꧙bair and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader SK Srinivasan wi🉐thin a span of 24 hours in Kerala's Palakkad were part of a pre-planned conspiracy, according to Kerala Police.
Additional Director General (Law and Order) Vijay Sakhare told reporters on Sunday, "There is a conspiracy behind both murders. We will find out who is behind it. The killers were onlyও foot soldiers."
Sakhare reached Palakkad after 45-year-old Srinivasan's murder on Saturday. Speaking to reporters, he refuted the alleg🅠ation that the police failed to prevent the RSS l💦eader's murder despite there being a possibility of retaliation after the killing of PFI leader Subair on Friday. He said it was "very very difficult" to prevent a planned murder and both the killings were "well planned".
Sakhare told PTI that it cannot be said whether the killings, especially that of the PFI leader, were politically motivated but the murder of the RSS leader is believed to be a retaliatory killing. He further said that൲ while no one has been arrested in connection with the two cases, several suspects were in custody of the police, who were questioning them, and based on the outcome of the interrogations, arrests would be made.
The ADG also said that two Special Investigation Teams (SITs) have been constituted to probe the murders and the poli😼ce has some good clues and leads in𓆏 the cases.
Several schemes and plans have been formulated to prevent any further such📖 incidents in the district and these would be implemented 🌟during the day, according to Sakhare.
Sriniജvasan was attacked by six bike-borne men at his shop in Melamuri area of the distric✱t.
PFI's Subair was hacked to death at Elappully area in the district😼 while he was returning home along with his father after offering prayers in a mosque on Friday afternoon.
A local RSS leader, Sanjith, was murdered in the same area, five months ago allegedly by SD🌳PI workers.
PFI on Friday had alleged that Subair was murdered by R♋SS workers.
The back-to-back killiꦬngs involving BJP-RSS and SDPI-PFI is the second such incident in the past few months in Kerala.
In December last year in Alappuzh꧅a, a leader of SDPI and a leader of BJP were murdered within 24 hours.
With PTI inputs
