Three more CPI(M) workers were taken into custody today in connection with the February 12 murder of Youth Congress functionary S P Shuhaib here, police said.
The three were nabbed from a hide out at Virajpet in Karnataka, police said.
Two CPI(M) workers have been already been arrested in connection with the killing even as the Congress alleged that they were not the real culprits.
Congress-led UDF Opposition in Kerala had demanded a CBI probe into the killing of the Youth Congress functionary.
Senior Congress leader, K Sudhakaran, who was staging a huger strike here for the last five days demanding the arrest of the real culprits behind the killing, had also stated yesterday that he would continue the stir till the government order a CBI investigation in the case.
The 29-year-old Youth Congress Mattannur block leader Shuhaib was hacked to death on February 13 by a group of persons, suspected to be belonging to the CPI(M).
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