Aluva: Kerala Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan on Sunday alleged that previous Congress government had included some "innocent" persons as accused in the Tamil Nadu bus burning case in a "deliberate attempt to shield the real culprits."
Despite getting enough evidence against PDP leader Abdul Nasser Madani`s wife Soofia Madani in the case during Congress-led UDF rule, no effort was taken to even question her, he claimed.
The LDF Government had ordered a fresh probe into the
September 2005 incident which took place at nearby Kalamassery
and listed six new accused, including Soofia Madani, he told
reporters after a meeting with DGP Jacob Punnoose here.
Some of the earlier accused, including the first
accused, were found to be innocent and this was to protect the
real culprits involved in the case, he alleged.
The minister said a section of the media was falsely
trying to give the impression that he was directly involving
himself in the investigation of the bus burning case.
The bus was set on fire allegedly to protest the
continued detention of Madani in Coimbatore jail in connection
with the serial bomb blasts in February 1998.
He said DIG T K Vinod Kumar, heading the Anti Terror
Squad, has returned from US, and will take charge tomorrow.
A controversy had broken out after Kannur IGP Tomin J
Thachankery was sent to Bangalore to interrogate suspected LeT
militant T Nazir and another accused, both hailing from
Kerala, since Vinod Kumar was away in the US.
PTI
