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Highway robbery in Kerala: Senior BJP leaders Don’t appear for questioning

Highway robbery in Kerala: Senior BJP leaders Don't appear for questioning
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THRISSUR: 2 senior BJP leaders, summoned in relation to the latest street prosecution of hawala cash at Kodakara here before the April 6 Assembly surveys, didn’t turn up to its interrogation on Sunday, authorities said. A special investigation group, flapping to the episode that happened on April 3days before the State Assembly surveys, had requested RSS pioneer and BJP Condition organisation secretary R Ganeshan and celebration workplace secretary Gireesh to look for questioning. However, the two of them advised their annoyance to seem, ” a senior police officer said. “We’ve requested them to look for interrogation here now. However, they advised they had any annoyance to develop up. We’ll issue an original note . Thus far, 19 people have been detained in relation to the situation,” he told PTI. The researchers had questioned BJP Thrissur district general secretary K Hari and Ayyanthole Area Secretary G Kashinadhan in relation to the highway robbery of the hawala cash. The summoning of Ganeshan and Gireesh has signaled that the more Condition leaders of BJP-RSS are quizzed in this respect. According to the authorities, the prosecution had happened on April 3. According to the complaint filed by one Shamjeer Samsudheen on April 7, an unidentified gang had stopped the vehicle he’d driven the Kodakara flyover here and assaulted him as much as Rs 25 lakh stored in the car when he had been on his way into Kochi from Kozhikode. The driver had informed authorities which Dharmarajan, a documented RSS activist at Kozhikode, had passed him over the cash. In accordance with the latter’s announcement, he had obtained the money out of Sunil Naik, former state treasurer of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, the youth wing of BJP. Although the criticism had stated that just Rs 25 lakh was stolen, the researchers later discovered that real amount could be around Rs 3.5 crore, also it had been a hawala trade, police sources said. “We’ve recovered almost every one crore of the along with the probe is heading to unravel the whole quantity,” the senior official added. Although the accused had advised authorities the money was intended for property industry, ” the ruling CPI(M) had alleged that it had been a part of black cash brought to its election campaign of a federal celebration and searched a thorough probe into the episode. But, BJP State president K Surendran on Saturday said his party had no relation to the event. Alleging that there has been an effort to associate the BJP using the instance and tarnish the image, the chief stated the interrogation of these party leaders had been just a play with. The saffron party never used any prohibited cash for campaigning, he further added. When asked if the investigation to the street prosecution case was going towards the greater leaders of BJP,” Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Saturday he hadn’t any clue about this. “It ought to really be asked about the authorities,” he’d told reporters in Thiruvananthapuram.

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