2 more teams formed to probe Sasikumar murder

Coimbatore: In addition to the existing six special teams, the Coimbatore rural police have formed two more special teams on Monday to crack the Hindu Munnani spokesperson C Sasikumar's murder case. But the teams are yet to find a breakthrough in the case.
Preliminary investigation by the police revealed that two youths from Ganapathy area were absconding for the last four days. They belong to a gang and one of their gang members Hakkim, 27, a wall painter, was hacked to death at Ganapathy two weeks ago.A police team is trying to locate their whereabouts.
Meanwhile, the intelligence section (IS) officials and special intelligence cell (SIC) officials conducted interrogation with few prisoners at the high security block at the Coimbatore central prison on Monday. "We have been investigating in various angles to get a breakthrough. So far, we could not establish any clues," said a senior police officer.
ADGP JK Tripathy conducted a meeting with DIGs Nagarajan (Salem range) and Arun (Trichy range), Coimbatore district SP RV Ramya Bharati and the special teams at Thudiyalur police station. Police officials confirmed that they would withdraw the police personnel deployed at various streets after the arrest of the accused in the sensitive murder case.
According to a police source, Sasikumar allegedly posted and shared derogatory articles against a particular religious people.
The SIC team members have been monitoring his post and sharing articles on his Facebook page. The city cybercrime cell team had been collecting his call details for the past two months.