Sasi Kumar murder: CB-CID arrests accused amidst drama

Close to midnight on September 22, Sasi Kumar was hacked to death at Thudiyalur. The CB-CID, which was probing the murder case after detailed investigations arrested Abu Thahir. Police sources said that Abu Thahir, a pavement hawker, was also an active member of the Popular Front of India.

Intelligence sources said that he was among a few others under their radar and that the police had already quizzed him a dozen times in connection with the case. On Monday evening, CB-CID personnel picked him up for questioning. After completing the interrogation, sleuths allowed him to go. However close to 11.30 pm the same day, CB-CID personnel again asked him to come for inquiry, even as he was leaving an eatery at Ukkadam. 

Meanwhile, his family and PFI personnel, who could not trace his whereabouts, picketed the Police Commissioner’s office here from the early hours of Tuesday to the afternoon. 

They dispersed from the spot only after the police gave them an assurance that his family would be able to see him in the evening. Since the assurance was not kept, his family and PFI personnel moved a petition in the Coimbatore court seeking his appearance. Based on their claim that Abu Thahir was detained at the CB-CID office in the Police Recruits School Grounds, JM–III, V P Velusamy, visited the place on Wednesday. Abu Thahir was spotted there. 

Meanwhile, his wife Sumaiya and father Jaffer Ali claimed that Abu Thahir had no role in any anti-social activity. 

Sumaiya also threatened to commit suicide if any harm was caused to her husband. Meanwhile, police claimed that Abu Thahir was involved in the murder of Sasi Kumar, booked under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code and produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Coimbatore K R Madhurasekaran late in the evening. On the CJM’s direction he was remanded at the Coimbatore Central Prison under judicial custody for 15 days.