Kannur: Shocking visuals of the attack on an independent candidate who contested from the Vadakara Lok Sabha Constituency in the recent general elections have come out. Manorama News has obtained the CCTV visuals of CPM rebel Naseer being pursued and hacked by a few youth at night on Kayyath Road in Thalassery. The visuals also show the attackers running a motorbike over the body of Naseer who had fallen down after the attack.
One bike-borne man smashed Naseer's head with an iron rod, another stabbed him in stomach and on hands with knife and a third assailant rode the bike over him, Naseer had said in his statement to the cops last month while in the hospital. Naseer had underwent emergency surgery at Kozhikode Medical College Hospital after the attack.
After Naseer was attacked on the night of May 18, a few days before the Lok Sabha polls, three persons were arrested in connection with the case and two others surrendered in the Court.
Naseer had claimed that the attack was plotted by A.N. Shamseer, CPM MLA, and two local committee members of the CPM. He had also said the attack was carried out to avenge him for questioning certain irregularities regarding the renovation of a municipal stadium at Thalassery in Kerala's Kannur district.
Following this allegation, a commission appointed by CPM had collected evidence from party members of the Thalassery Local Committee and Kayyath Branch Committee of the party.
It was said Naseer was threatened a few days before the brutal attack. He was reportedly called to a CPM leader’s office and was told that his arms and legs would be chopped off.
CPM leader P.Jayarajan, who was the party candidate from Vadakara, had visited Naseer in the hospital.
Naseer was a CPM member and Thalassery municipal councillor. He chose not to renew party membership over a difference of opinion on including a column for religion on the renewal form. CPM did not oust him. The attack and election do not seem related, Jayarajan had clarified then.
