KANNUR: Home Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan has said the Special Investigation team (SIT), probing the murders of RMP leader T P Chandrasekharan of Onchiyam and MSF leader Abdul Shukkoor of Keezhara near Thaliparamba, is a perfect and the best team led by Vincent M Paul and Rahul R Nair and the government will not interfere at any cost and also it would not allow anyone else to interfere. Talking to reporters here, Thiruvanchoor said the cases are proceeding in the right direction, and they are not targeting anyone or turn against anyone with political consideration. The SIT members reach a conclusion while they got some evidence and that is the way for investigation. To a question, he replied that the phenomena of giving a list of accused in a political murder by the political parties has come to an end in Kerala and all the accused would be booked without considering their politics.

However, police cannot use third-degree methods on the arrested people and they should only apply scientific methods to prove the case, he added. Thiruvanchoor also hoped that the two recent murders would put a final curtain upon the recurrence of political murders of Kannur, thus putting an end to the sorrow of mothers and sisters. So the government's duty is to book all the convicts and not going for a compromise. The society's main intention is also to end the political murders, so the SIT would decide where they gone to probe or not. The government would give all protection and administrative procedures as a responsibility to protect the people. He also said that there is no leak of investigation process from police side and the media's efficiency is the reason for some confessions from the accused getting published. He also said the government was ready for a Crime Branch investigation into Aneeshraj murder case of Idukki and assured that it will not consider the murders by looking at their political background. To another query, he said the government was not ready to divert the probe in these cases, just because of the small issues like the blocking of SIT by CPI (M) activists at Thalassery and Koothuparamaba, while the SIT reached there with the accused to gather evidence. Thiruvanchoor said the people of Kannur have given great belief over the SIT, while considering their spirit to book the real accused, and that is why the people were demanding for reinvestigation into the murder cases of Kannur and he also said the government would take legal procedures to reinvestigate K T Jayakrishnan murder case. He said the portraits and pictures were removed from the walls of the jails and the process of shifting the convicts who were lodged for murder case and in addition to subsequent cases to another zone. He also said that the government is planning to reform the Jail Act.