Kerala: The leader of SFI stabbed to death at Kochi High School

Abhimanyu (pictured) was a second-year student and a worker of the Federation of Students of India (IFC).

An SFI leader was stabbed to death at Maharaja College in Ernakulam early Monday. Two other students belonging to SFI, the student wing of CPM, were injured in the clash that allegedly involved Campus Front, the student group of the Popular Front of India (PFI).

Police identified the victim as 20-year-old Abhimanyu. family of agricultural workers in Vattavada in the district of Idukki. He was a member of the SFI Idukki District Committee

. Five people allegedly belonging to the Campus Front were placed in police custody. The police are looking for 15 other people, including men from PFI. A third-year college student is suspected to be the main defendant, police

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said that the incident was planned in advance, and that some extremist people from outside the campus were behind the murder. [19659006Accordingtothepoliceofthree-year-oldstudentswbadtudiedat12:30pmatthesametimeasbadliancewithCampusFrontistsfromtheGraffitiCampaignswhowerehostingFridgeWorksontheCampus

wall that was booked by the SFI to stick their notices to greet freshers. When the SFI men questioned this, the Camp Front workers retreated. At midnight, they came back with a band of PFI men, which caused an altercation between the two parties. One of the people who allegedly belonged to the attackers grabbed Abhimanyu's hands while another person stabbed him in the stomach. He died while being taken to the hospital, "said a police officer from Kochi City.

The body of Abhimanyu is taken to the college auditorium. (Photo by Kiran Gangadharan)

The Campus State Front Secretariat, in a statement, called for a thorough investigation into the killing. "IFC has created problems in the college campus. SFI does not allow other organizations to work on campus. Its workers have destroyed Campus Front's campaign material, "said the secretariat.

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