KL-STRIKE-SBI BRANCH

7 more accused in vandalising SBI office identified

Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 11 (PTI): Kerala Police have

identified seven more accused in the case of vandalising a

State Bank of India (SBI) branch here on January 9, the second

day of the 48 hour-long nation-wide trade union strike.

The treasury branch of SBI was attacked on Wednesday

morning by a group of people, who barged into the manager's

cabin, threatened him and the staff, damaged a glass table top

and a computer monitor.

The strike was called by 10 central trade unions

against the Centre's "anti-labour" policies.

A local court had on January 10 remanded to custody,

two state government employees who had surrendered before the

police.

The Investigating officer told PTI that the remand report

had been submitted to the respective heads of departments of

the arrested Non-Gazetted Officers Union members.

"We have examined the CCTV visuals and identified

sevenc more accused. We have gone to their respective

government offices and confirmed their identities. All of them

are on leave. They will be arrested soon," police said.

They said one of those identified, Suresh Babu, was a

state committee member of the CPI(M) affiliated NGO union.

Ashokan, a senior accountant at the Treasury

Directorate and Harilal, an attender at the Technical

Education Directorate, are the two government employees in

judicial custody.