Thiruvananthapuram: A cop accused in an attempt to murder case is among 22 senior officers in the Kerala Police conferred with the IPS (Indian Police Service) rank.

N Abdul Rasheed was among the senior officers accused in the attempt to murder journalist V B Unnithan.

However, last May, the High Court of Kerala ruled against a CBI appeal against conferring IPS on the accused cop. The list of officers conferred was prepared in 2019 and 2020.

The officers conferred IPS from the 2019 list: Gopakumar K S, Bijoy P, Suneesh Kumar R, Prasanthan Kani B K, Sabu Mathew K M, Sudarsan K S, Shaji Sugunan and Vijayan K V.

From the 2020 list, those conferred IPS are Ajih V, Kishore Kumar J, Abdul Rasheed N, Aji V S, Jayasankar R, Sandeep V M, Sunilkumar V, Aji K K, Raju A S, Johnkutty K L, Rajesh N, Reji Jacob, K E Baiju and R Mahesh.