Express News Service
KOCHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) suspects that 26-year-old Vijith Vijayan, who was arrested on Thursday in connection with the Pantheerankavu Unlawful Atrocities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) case, was working with the publication wing of the banned CPI (Maoist) organisation and used to translate radical Maoist literature from English to Malayalam.
Vijith, who has been named the fourth accused in the case, had also allegedly played a key role in propagating the radical ideology among youths. Meanwhile, the agency has arraigned Vijith’s friend Eldho Wilson, who is yet to be arrested, as the fifth accused.
The case pertains to the arrest of students Thwaha Fasal and Alan Suhaib from Pantheerankavu in November 2019, for allegedly holding a clandestine Maoist meeting outside a shop in Kozhikode. The third accused C P Usman, who is still absconding, purportedly managed to flee when the police patrolling team reached the spot.