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The erstwhile president of the Kannur territory panchayat was successful judicial custody from October 29. (File photos)
A Kerala tribunal granted bail Friday to CPI(M) person P P Divya who was arrested successful transportation with allegedly abetting the termination of Additional District Magistrate Naveen Babu.
Principal District and Sessions Judge, Thalassery, K T Nissar Ahammed granted alleviation to Divya, the erstwhile president of the Kannur territory panchayat, who was successful judicial custody from October 29. She surrendered to the constabulary hours aft a territory tribunal rejected her anticipatory bail plea.
Attending his send-off relation allegedly uninvited connected October 14, Divya had criticised Babu for delaying the support of a petrol pump successful Chengalai for respective months and remarked that helium granted support lone 2 days aft being transferred, hinting that she knew the reasons down the abrupt approval.
The pursuing day, Babu was recovered dormant astatine his quarters successful Kannur.
A week ago, Kannur saw protests by Congress workers, who marched to the Kannur collectorate, seeking enactment against District Collector Arun K Vijayan.
The protestation was led by Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) main K Sudhakaran, who said the Collector should person had the courageousness to halt Divya from making the allegations against the ADM astatine his farewell function.
After Sudhakaran’s speech, constabulary utilized h2o cannons respective times to disperse the protesters, including connected Congress nationalist spokesperson Shama Mohamed. Protesters besides clashed with the constabulary contiguous astatine the collectorate.
CPI(M)’s reaction
After she was granted bail, the ruling CPI(M) successful Kerala spoke successful enactment of Divya and said that she was a enactment cadre and not an enemy.
“She is not an force of the party. She is simply a enactment cadre. When a cadre makes a mistake, the enactment volition close it and volition determination forward,” enactment authorities caput M V Govindan said.
This came amidst reports that the CPI(M) decided to region her from its Kannur territory committee. Govindan added that the “party’s volition is to close the cadres and not termination them.”
He besides said that determination was thing incorrect with enactment leaders gathering Divya and that they volition conscionable her erstwhile she comes retired of prison.
— With PTI inputs
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