‘Maoists’ killing was a fake encounter’: Kerala CPI submits report to CM

'Making its stand firm on the killing of four people suspected to be Maoists in Manjeekkandi forest of Attappady in Palakkad district, the CPI has submitted a report on it to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan reiterating the party’s stand that it was a fake encounter. The second largest constituent in the ruling Left Democratic Front after the CPI(M), the CPI since the beginning has been asserting that the killing was a fake encounter while the government insists that it wasn’t and that the Maoists didn’t come to surrender. Though not divulging the contents of the report, CPI state assistant secretary K Prakabh Babu told TNM it was clearly spelled out that it was a fake encounter. “Our conclusion is that it was indeed a fake encounter,” Prakash Babu said. A group of leaders of the CPI visited the spot where the killings happened in Attappady...'