KOCHI: In a highly clandestine operation, a Special Investigation Team (SIT) under Kochi range Inspector General K Padmakumar arrested senior CPM leader M M Mani on Wednesday early morning from his residence at Kunjithani under Rajakkad police station limits in Idukki.
Padmakumar told ToI that Mani was arrested from his residence by around 5 am and he would be produced before Nedumkandam police station.
The SIT has been on his trail for the last few days after Mani expressed his unwillingness to appear for a polygraph test in connection with the murder cases registered against him. Kerala police registered the murder cases against Mani, the former CPM Idukki district secretary, after he made a controversial public speech that "his party has committed murders to finish off their political opponents".
He also listed out the names of Congress activists, who the party had allegedly finished off in Idukki during the 90s. The decision to arrest Mani was kept as a highly secretive affair as there were wide protests from the CPM workers in the state against the UDF government for reopening probe into the political murders involving CPM activists.
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