Cops suspect Al Umma behind Hindu Munnani leader’s murder

HinduMunnaniCHENNAI: Investigations into the murder of Hindu Munnani leader K P S Suresh Kumar in Ambattur on Wednesday night have led the city police to an Al Umma plot.

Senior officers said three days of investigations have led them to believe that the Islamic fundamentalist group carried out the murder, probably because of an inflammatory speech Kumar made at an RSS public meeting in Avadi on December 12, 2013. “A witness to the murder, who was also injured in the attack, has given some vital inputs including some slogans the assailants raised after the attack. They indicate the involvement of Al Umma, said an officer. He added that some of the Al Umma operatives in prison now for murders of pro-Hindu outfit leaders had told interrogators that Hindu organization leaders would continue to be targeted.

Police commissioner S George on Saturday convened a meeting of senior officers to discuss the case. On top of the agenda was analysis of Kumar’s speech. “We have gone through the entire transcript of his speech. There are a few inflammatory remarks in it,” an officer said. Investigators have taken special note of one of the injuries Kumar suffered – on his mouth – that suggests it was a symbolic act of violence for having spoken in a derogatory manner. Kumar sustained more than a dozen injuries.

Pursuing the Al Umma theory, a city police team has interrogated three Al Umma operatives, Bilal Malik, Panna Ismail and ‘Police’ Fakrudeen, who are in the custody of Bangalore police in connection with the Bangalore BJP office bomb blast case in April last year. Police are collecting details of leaders of Hindu-affiliated organizations. Police have provided a personal security officer (PSO) for 82 people in the city who are on the hit-list of extremists. Security to these people was downsized a few years ago, but it was strengthened again after a series of killings of leaders and members of BJP, RSS and Hindu Munnani by suspected Al Umma operatives.

After the murder of the Hindu Munnani leader Suresh Kumar in Ambattur, Chennai city police commissioner George has asked all his sub-ordinate officers to gather the details of the list of important people in the hit-list of the Muslim fundamentalists and planned to provide PSO for each one of them after getting permission from the state home department.

Source: Times of India