Thalasserry : The District Sessions Court on Friday refused bail for 10 RSS-BJP men charged with murder of CPI(M) worker Haridasan in Kodiyeri’s Punnol on 21 February. Third accused, Sunesh from Gopalpettah, was granted bail. He had kept tab on Haridas on the fateful day and snitched to the assailant gang of his arrival close to home there.
Those declined bail Punnoli natives KV Vimin, Amal Manoharan, CK Ashanth, CK Arjun, Deepak Sadanand, K Abhimanyu, Parajeesh N Prajutti, PK Dinesh aka Pochara Dinesh, Panthakall Vayailpeedika native Pk Sharat and Madapeedika native Atmaj S Ashok.
Haridasan, a fish worker by trade, was returning from shop and as he reached home, was ambushed by an armed gang of RSS-BJP men and hacked to death around 1.30 am on 21 February. The gruesome crime was committed in front of his family.