Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Communist Party of India Marxist leader and Kannur district secretary of the party, P. Jayarajan, surrendered at the Thalassery additional sessions court on Friday.
The court remanded him to the Kannur Central Jail until March 11.
Jayarajan, an accused in the murder of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh worker, Kathiroor E. Manoj, had lost his anticipatory bail plea in the Kerala High Court on Thursday.
Jayarajan came to court in an ambulance and his counsel requested the court to move him to hospital considering his medical condition. The court turned down the appeal. He had been under treatment at the Pariyaram Medical College.
Since Jayarajan had been charged under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, and the high court had ruled that the charge would stand, he had little option but to surrender after his bail plea was rejected.
Jayarajan alleged that he has been implicated in the Manoj murder case by the RSS, and that chief minister Oommen Chandy and home minister Ramesh Chennithala played a supporting role in it.
A number of CPM activists turned up in front of the Kannur Central Jail when their district secretary was brought there for imprisonment for a month. Earlier, the Central Bureau of Investigation had submitted before the high court that Jayarajan was the “kingpin and mastermind” behind the Manoj murder case.
RSS worker, E. Manoj (42) was hacked to death two years ago, when he was travelling to Thalassery. The assailants hurled a country bomb at his vehicle, dragged him out and hacked him to death.
