The Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] in Kannur on Sunday sought to distance itself from the family, which allegedly ‘harboured’ Nijil Das, a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) worker wanted for the murder of CPI(M) activist K. Haridas.
The police had last week arrested Nijil Das from the house of a local schoolteacher, P. Reshma. The development drew political attention because Ms. Reshma is a neighbour of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. It also did not help the government that unidentified persons had hurled country bombs at the teacher's house following Nijil's arrest and threw her furniture into the compound well.
