Kerala's leader of opposition V.S.Achuthanandan Thursday demanded the removal of a CBI official investigating theattack on a school teacher in the state as he is a former student of theinstitution.
The school is owned by veteran UDF leader R. BalakrishnaPillai. The school teacher Krishna Kumar who teaches at the school nearKottarakara, 70 km from here, was brutally attacked by unidentified people inSeptember 2011.
Kumar was not in the good books of Pillai for a long time,he alleged. Achuthanandan had launched a huge campaign against Pillai andalleged that this incident could not have taken place without the knowledge ofPillai and his minister son K.B. Ganesh Kumar.
"It's rather strange that the Central Bureau ofInvestigation (CBI) has posted an officer who hails from the place where theschool is located, is not only known to Pillai but is also a former student ofthe same school (this) raises suspicion," said Achuthanandan in a statementto the press issued here.
"Hence, the CBI should see that this official isremoved and a new person be posted to investigate the case," he said.
Pillai's party Kerala Congress (Pillai) is an ally of theCongress-led ruling government.
The first theory circulated was that Kumar's rectum waspierced with an iron rod, his genitals crushed and his hips smashed.
However, a medical board report concluded that Kumar'sinjuries might have been caused due to a vehicle accident and that his rectumwas not pierced by a rod, nor were his genitals crushed.
At that time, Pillai was serving a jail term in a corruptioncase that was pursued by Achuthanandan for close to two decades.