Raghavan is on the lam.
By Dileep Thekkethil
Causing more trouble to Kerala’s Communist Party of India (Marxist), which is trying to save face after a leader of its student organization attacked the former Indian diplomat TP Srinivasan, another leader of the cadre party was caught red handed on CCTV footage committing robbery.
The visuals of the CPI (M) leader Raghavan from the North Kerala’s Kasargod district, doing robbery went viral on Wednesday and the party was forced to expel him with immediate effect to avoid further embarrassment.
Raghavan went missing since the video of him with an iron rod trying to break into a businessman’s house went viral on YouTube and other social media.
According to Police, Raghavan tried to break into the house of a businessman, Mohamed Younus who lives in the UAE along with his family. Neighbors quickly alerted Younus’s relatives who contacted the police.
Police and the neighbors were shocked when they saw the CCTV footages as the popular CPI (M) leader was seen walking around the house with an iron rod and a bag. Dressed in white dhoti and shirt, Raghavan is believed to have done the robbery in the late hours of Monday but the police are yet to take an estimate of the items lost from the house.
“We have registered a case and are looking for Raghavan who is absconding now,†said a police officer of Kasargode.