Breakthrough in Nadapuram murder case

By Our Staff Reporter

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JULY 28. The State police today achieved a major breakthrough in the sensational Nadapuram Binu murder case with the arrest of five persons, all of them staunch activists of the National Development Front (NDF) at Vadakara in Kozhikode district.

Addressing a press conference here today, the Director General of Police, Mr. R. Padmanabhan, identified the accused as Sadath Master, district chairman of the Vadakara NDF, Soopy Master, convener, NDF Vadakara Sub-Division, Ambali Muhammadali and Nizar Andru, NDF council members, and Nazar Saidu and Nizar Ammed, both NDF activists.

Binu, a CPI(M) activist and prime accused in the Nafeesa molestation case that rocked the peace in Nadapuram recently, was hacked to death by a five-member NDF hit-team at the Kallachi- Avolam road junction at 3.15 p.m. on June 2 this year. Binu, who was evading the police after being named as accused in the molestation case, was killed in an act of vengeance by the NDF which had locked horns with the CPI(M) at Nadapuram in the wake of the Nafeesa incident, he said.

The molestation of Nafeesa and the subsequent murder of the main accused in the case had ruined the communal and political peace in Nadapuram forcing the Chief Minister, Mr. A.K. Antony, to order a ``free and fair'' police inquiry into both the vexed incidents. Subsequently, the DGP, Mr. R. Padmanabhan, had constituted a special police team under the direct supervision of the Additional Director General of Police (Crime), Mr. R. S. Mooshahary.

Mr. Mooshahary said the conspiracy to murder Binu was hatched some 20 days before the crime took place. The NDF relied on their informants in Nadapuram to keep a tab on the movements of Binu, who was shifting from one place to another in a clandestine manner to evade the police and also the NDF activists who had launched a man-hunt for him.

The NDF got information that Binu, who is a jeep driver by profession, appeared often at the Kallachi-Avolam road junction to meet his friends among van drivers there. The police reconstruction of murder is as follows:

On June 2, the NDF hit-team received information that Binu was present at the junction. The five-member team armed with swords and country-bombs rushed to the spot in a jeep. They parked the jeep about 100 metres away from the junction and walked towards Binu. The NDF informant stepped up to Binu and pointed him out for the hit-team members. At a signal, two of the hit-men wielding long swords rushed forward and fell upon Binu.

Another drew his sword and kept the onlookers at bay. By the time, the hit-team had killed Binu - both his legs were almost severed from his brutally cut-up torso. Before escaping from the scene, one of the hit-team members hurled a country-bomb to cover their retreat. Mr. Mooshahary said Nazar Saidu and Nizar Ammed were part of the hit-team which carried out the murder with clinical precision.

Mr. Mooshahary said some more members of the hit-team were to be arrested. Simultaneously, the ADGP's team was able to arrest seven of the 14 persons named as accused in the Nafeesa molestation case.

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