The Palakkad District Secretary of PFI Aboobekar Siddik was arrested on Monday in connection with RSS leader Srinivasan's murder in April this year. As per police, Siddik was with other PFI leaders in preparing the list of politicians to be targetted. The leaders they have targeting belonged to BJP, CPI (M) and the youth wing of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML).


In April, PFI worker named Subair was murdered and police suspect that RSS leader Sreenivasan's murder was in retaliation to Subair's. Over 13 people, who were suspected to have connections with the RSS leader's murder, and who have affiliation with PFI were arrested earlier.






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Rejecting the charges against Siddik, the PFI accused the CPI(M)-led LDF government of trying to hunt down its workers in the state as it was upset with the huge turnout in a rally organised by the PFI in Kozhikode recently.


Over 20 people, who were workers of or affiliated to the PFI or its political offshoot Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), were arrested in connection with Srinivasan's killing.


Srinivasan, a former district leader and office-bearer of RSS, was attacked by a six-member gang at his motorbike shop in Melamuri near here on April 16, barely 24 hours after Subair was hacked to death at Elappully in the district while he was returning home along with his father after offering prayers in a mosque on April 15 afternoon.


(With inputs from agencies)