Kochi, Saturday, April 04, 2009: The Prosecution Director General VG Govindan Nair has directed the state Home Ministry to reinvestigate all case against PDP Abdul Nasser Maudani and his wife Sufiya Maudani which includes the Kalamasserry bus torching incident. According to sources, the Home Ministry has been legally advised that if no interrogation takes place it would be considered as a serious laxity in the process of investigation.
The Prosecution Director General had yesterday held high-level talks with police officials regarding this. The direction for probe comes in the wake of various allegations that the people who took part in the Panayikullam, Wagamon SIMI camps are present in the PDP led by Maudani and the PIL to ban PDP is all set to be heard at the Kerala High Court next week. The Prosecution Director General has seeked for all details of the investigation from Home Ministry.
However, all cases pending against Abdul Nasser Maudani were made void by Ernakulam Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate a year before due to technical reasons.

Meanwhile, Abdul Nasser Maudani has been refuting all charges against him calling it as propaganda “unleashed” by IUML and Congress.

Last week a magistrate has sought a police report on the allegation that Sufiya Maudani, wife of People’s Democratic Party chairman Abdul Nasser Maudani, was behind the burning of a Tamil Nadu bus near Kochi four years ago to protest against the “torture” of her husband in Coimbatore jail.
Aluva first class magistrate V.S. Vidyadharan directed the police at Kalamassery, near Kochi, to submit the report by June 1. The charge is that Sufiya had plotted and funded the bus burning to send a strong message to the Tamil Nadu government after she learnt about her husband’s “plight” in the high-security jail in Coimbatore.
Maudani, with whom the CPM has an alliance for the coming polls, was accused of masterminding blasts in Coimbatore to assassinate BJP leader L.K. Advani in 1998. He has since been acquitted.
A Thrissur resident, P.D. Jose, contended in his complaint that judicial confessions by the accused in the burning of the passenger bus at Kalamassery on September 9, 2005, incriminated Sufiya but the police had refused to interrogate her.
Key accused Majeed Parambayi, the PDP secretary in the northern Kannur district in 2000-01, had alleged in his statement that he and three others got Rs 20,000 each from Sufiya. The bus, on a night trip, was torched after assailants offloaded passengers in a deserted area.
According to Majeed, Sufiya had broached the idea with him at her residence in Kochi.
The PDP had condemned the incident, denying it had anything to do with the arson.
In another embarrassment, Sainudiin alias Sattar, picked up by Karnataka police in connection with blasts in Bangalore and Ahmedabad, allegedly said he had close contact with Abdul Maudani.