The Kerala Assembly witnessed noisy scenes on Monday over Opposition CPI(M) MLA E.P. Jayarajan bringing two used grenades into the House. Speaker G. Karthikeyan pointed out that bringing explosives into the House was a violation of law and the grenades were take away.
It was while presenting a notice for an adjournment motion on the police action on SFI activists in the city on Thursday in connection with the Anish Rajan murder case that Mr Jayarajan displayed the two grenades which, he said, were used by the police against the SFI activists.
State home minister Thiruvanchoor Radha-krishnan and other UDF MLAs objected and the Speaker asked the material to be taken out. One of the Speaker’s staff then took the grenades out of the Assembly.
The Opposition staged a walkout after the Speaker did not allow the adjournment motion. Opposition leader V.S. Achuthana-ndan alleged that though nine persons were accused in the murder of SFI Pathanamthitta district vice-president Anish Rajan, only two had been arrested in three months.
Replying to the notice for adjournment, the home minister said a fair and unbiased probe by a special team was progressing and all the accused would be brought before the law.