Everyone thought VS was dead; he was reborn because of a thief

VS Achuthanandan was caught by the police in September 1946, while staying at a beedi worker's house in Poonjar. He was taken to the Erattupetta police outpost and later to the Pala station and beaten up. A policeman stabbed him in his leg with the bayonet of a gun. Blood splattered into the lockup. VS fell unconscious.

One day, a policeman named Narayana Pillai, known by the alias 'Idiyan', entered the lockup. Nonstop thrashing followed. VS suffered urinary incontinence due to the impact of the police third degree. The police thought that VS, who had fainted, was dead. Narayana Pillai's order was to take the body and throw it in the forest.

A thief named Kolappan realized that VS was not dead while he was being taken away in a jeep. After Kolappan cried and begged, the police took VS to the General Hospital in Pala. VS was reborn from the ashes like a phoenix. As poetic justice, a police officer, who was among those who beat VS, had to rely on him later.

The SI named Krishnan Nair, who had crushed VS, later came to him, albeit with embarrassment. Kerala had already been born by then. It was the time when the Communist government was in power. At that time, VS was the Alappuzha district secretary of the undivided Communist Party and a member of the state secretariat. Krishnan Nair came with a letter from the party's Kottayam district secretary CS Gopala Pillai. The request was that VS, a member of the state secretariat, should recommend him for promotion.