Palakkad Subair murder: Police recover machetes from river

Palakkad: Police recovered four machetes, believed to be used by the assailants of SDPI worker Subair from a river here. The accused in custody, Ramesh, Arumugham and Saravanan showed the location in the Korayar river where they dumped it after the crime.

Police spent almost an hour in the deserted area of the river here to collect evidence. They will be also brought to the place where they were hiding.

All three accused arrested today are RSS workers.

ADGP (Law and Order) Vijay Sakhare, said that three persons are believed to have directly carried out the murder to avenge the death of RSS leader Sanjith in November 2021.

One of them, Ramesh, was a very close friend of Sanjith and according to the accused, the latter had said that if anything ever happens to him, Subair would be responsible for it, the ADGP said.

However, the investigation into Sanjith's killing had not disclosed Subair's involvement, the senior officer pointed out.

Therefore, after Sanjith's murder, Ramesh allegedly started planning the murder of the PFI leader and the trio tried to kill him a couple of times, but were unsuccessful due to the presence of police in the area.

On April 15, they came again and carried out the murder, the officer said.

Sakhare also told PTI that efforts are on to ascertain whether there are any other conspirators, or supporters and all that is part of the investigation.

(With PTI inputs)