AIYF man booked for ex-NRK death
KOLLAM: The Pathanapuram police has booked a local AIYF leader for aiding in the suicide by Sugathan, 65, a Gulf returnee, in Punalur. Inesh, 30, of Kottava-ttom, first accused, has been charged with abetment of suicide under Section 306 of IPC based on a report filed by the Pathanapuram circle inspector.
The State Human Rights commission has also sought a report from the district collector and the rural SP police on the suicide. Sugathan of Aikkarakonam, Punalur, had hanged himself following the alleged mental torture inflicted on him by the CPI-AIYF activists.
Sugathan, who was an automobile mechanic in Muscat, had taken a property on lease at Elambal to start a workshop. He had also constructed a shed on the property spending nearly '3 lakh. But the local leaders of the AIYF, youth wing of the CPI, disrupted the construction which for-ced Sugathan to commit suicide by hanging himself in the temporary workshop he had constructed.
The police had earlier registered case for unnatural death under section 174 of CRPC. The police is investigating into the involvement of more men who had erected flags in the plot preventing the works. The relatives of Sugathan had staged a road blockade in Punalur on Saturday demanding penal action against the politicians who had demanded bribe for settling the dispute.