Kozhikode: The special investigation team probing the murder of RSS leader Kathirur Manoj is inching closer to some CPM leaders based in Kathirur.
Sources here told DC that the investigation team had got clear evidence to prove the involvement of CPM local leaders in the murder.
The team, which is verifying the mobile call records of the accused, has found that a local branch secretary of the CPM was in constant touch with the accused on the murder day and before.
This particular cell phone number is now switched off and the suspect is absconding.
Meanwhile, the police team has extended its search for the key accused to neighbouring states.
Police said the suspected leader of the assailants, Vikraman, had been working out of his base in Mumbai but his whereabouts at present were not known.
Police doubt he could be hiding in either Bangalore or Mumbai.
Police have found the mobile numbers of some of the accused who were present in the area near the scene of the crime on the day of the murder.
They got this information after checking the tower details of the mobile phones.
The SIT has also extracted statements from the eyewitnesses that substantiated the role of the CPM men in the murder.
