Kerala Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan has alleged that the Jamat Islami is a religious fundamentalist outfit and said that the Communist Party of India - Marxist has never had an alliance with the organisation. Responding to a question on whether the state government has initiated an inquiry in the activities of the organisation, he said that as it was a national outfit, it was the Centre's responsibility to probe its activities.
The Kerala government on Thursday ordered a vigilance probe into the charges of amassing disproportionate wealth by P V Sreenijan, son-in-law of former Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan. According to official sources, the order was issued by Kerala Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, based on the recommendation to conduct such a probe against Sreenijan by Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan.
Kerala Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan has ordered a probe into the complaint filed by one Shameer from Mattanchery, Kochi against PV Sreenijan, the son-in-law of Justice KG Balakrishnan, the former Chief Justice of India, for allegedly amassing property at worth Rs 7 crore in the last four years.
The state president of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Kerala V Muraleedharan has charged the State Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan and the Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Mulapally Ramachandran of scuttling the probe in the palm-chopping incident of a professor from New Man College in Thodupuzha
Kerala government on Friday said the arrest warrant against Peoples Democratic Party leader Abdul Nasser Madani, an accused in the Bengaluru serial bomb blasts case, will be executed by Karnataka police at an 'appropriate time' after the ongoing visit of President Pratibha Patil.
Balakrishnan, who filed his nomination from Thalassery assembly constituency in Kannur district, declared that he has Rs 36.20 lakh worth assets and his wife Rs 40.45 lakh.
Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan, who is also a member of the Communist Party of India Marxist politburo, has openly come out against the CPI-M's stance on People's Democratic Party leader Abdul Nasser Madani .The veteran leader, while fielding questions at a press conference in Thiruvananthapuram, said that the government would investigate whether any cases were pending against Madani. An unabashed Madani welcomed the chief minister's statement.
Preliminary inquiries have indicated that the suspected Hizbul Mujahideen activist arrested from Kumali in Kerala's Idukki district had terrorist links, State Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan has said.
Preliminary inquiries have indicated that the suspected Hizbul Mujahideen activist arrested from Kumali in Kerala's Idukki district had terrorist links, according to state Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan.
Amid reports that Kerala is gradually becoming a recruiting ground for extremist outfits, official sources in the state confirmed that the two suspected terrorists killed in a recent encounter in Jammu and Kashmir were from Kerala.
Kerala Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan on Friday dismissed Opposition Congress' charge that his son had links with those wanted in connection with the recent murder of Muthoot group scion Paul M George, asserting that the government had nothing to hide in the case."My son (Beenish Kodiyeri) has no relation with the case whatsoever," he said.The government had nothing to hide in the case and was open to 'any sort of investigation', he added.
The crucial two-day Communist Party of India-Marxist politburo meeting specifically for Kerala party affairs will start at the AKG Bhavan, the CPI-M national headquarters, in Delhi at 10 am on Saturday.
Besides stepping up coastal patrolling, the authorities concerned have been instructed to review the security of strategic spots, he said.
At least 102 Sabarimala devotees were killed and 50 injured in a stampede when a jeep crashed into homebound pilgrims at Pulmedu in Kerala's Idukki district, in the worst tragedy to strike the worshippers of the famed shrine in a decade.
Investigations are on to find out how a person who is not a regular police employee was entrusted with driving the pilot car in the motorcade.
Inspector General Vijayanand would be the new IG (Security) and DIG Padmakumar had been made the city police commissioner.
A pilot vehicle deviated from the prescribed route when the motorcade was on its way from the airport to the Raj Bhavan.
The police have been given instructions to keep strict vigil on the activities of Maoists in Kerala, Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan has said.
The massacre at Marad beach on May 2, 2003 was not merely a revenge for the killing of three persons at Marad beach on January 3/4, 2002. Instead, it was a one-sided attack on people belonging to a community without any provocation.
Union Minister of state for Home Affairs Mullappally Ramachandran on Monday said the law-and-order situation in Kerala was "not very sound" and asked the state government to take firm steps to address the issue.
In a legal and political setback to the Congress-led United Democratic Front government in Kerala, a vigilance court on Friday turned down its move to wind up the palmolein import graft case dating to 1992 when late Congress veteran K Karunakaran was the chief minister.
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