KASARAGOD: The CBI has questioned two local CPM leaders in connection with the Periya double murder case. Raghavan Velutholi, CPM Pakkam local committee secretary and former DYFI district committee member, and KV Bhaskaran, former Pakkam local secretary and Co-operative Bank Employees Union leader, were questioned.

The team led by DySP Anantha Krishnan interrogated Raghavan Velutholi for four and a half hours and collected information. He was called to the CBI camp office at PWD Rest House in Kasaragod for questioning. The charge against them is that they provided protection to the accused and conspired to destroy the evidence.

Youth Congress activists Sarath Lal and Kripesh were killed on the night of February 17, 2019. On the night of the incident, the vehicle that carried the accused to Cherootta in Pakkam was parked in an unoccupied area. It was the vehicle of the second accused Saji George. Raghavan Velutholi and KV Bhaskaran were among those who forcibly took Saji George out of the police vehicle who was taken into custody the next day while trying to move the vehicle out of the said place.