Kannur District Collector Arun Vijayan has pointed fingers against Additional District Magistrate Naveen Babu in the controversial suicide case involving the CPI-M leader PP Divya.
In his statement to the police, the collector said that Babu confessed to him of having done a ‘wrong’. Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal has slammed the collector, saying that he has no right to continue in his position.
“The collector has been forced to make such a statement and the CPI-M is a master in it. They intervened in the system to ensure that all whom they want to be protected are protected. It’s shameless for the collector to have given such a statement,” said Venugopal.
State BJP president K. Surendran said the Kerala Chief Minister and Divya must also be accused in the case.
Babu was found hanging on October 15 in his home, and a case against Divya for her remarks was registered on October 17. Divya made the speech at Babu’s function in the Kannur collectorate on October 14th, where she barged in to make a speech even though she wasn’t invited.
She had alleged that Babu withheld a sanction for a petrol pump, but just before his transfer orders came, he gave the sanction.
Incidentally, this statement deeply hurt Babu, who committed suicide at his official quarters by hanging. State Revenue Minister K. Rajan was the first person to give Babu a clean chit and termed him one of the cleanest officials in his department.
–IANS
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