Rema questions parole for TP murder convicts

CM asked to explain ‘flouting of norms’

Vadakara legislator K.K. Rema, widow of the slain Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMP) leader T.P. Chandrasekharan, has questioned the “violation of norms” in granting parole to the convicts in the murder of her husband in 2012 She told mediapersons here on Tuesday that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan owed an explanation why he took exceptional interest in granting parole to the convicts in this case. So far, the Chief Minister, who was holding the Home portfolio, had not given a reply when the question was posed by her in the Assembly, Ms. Rema said, adding that the CPI(M) leadership had maintained a good relationship with the convicts. She said that K.C. Ramachandran,a member of the local committee of the CPI(M), who was expelled from the party for his alleged role in the conspiracy, had secured bail for 547 days while another convict, Kirmani Manoj, was out of prison for 547 days.