Summary:
Kozhikode: Two local CPM leaders have been arrested for allegedly raping a fellow woman comrade of the ruling Marxist party in Vadakara in Kerala's Kozhikode district. The accused identified as P P Baburaj and T P Lijesh were arrested on charges of rape trespassing of property and criminal intimidation of the complainant woman who was a member of the Vadakara branch committee of the CPM. A Sreenivas Kozhikode Rural SP told PTI that both were arrested from Karimbanapalam near Vadakara early Monday morning. Following the arrest the CPI(M) had suspended the two party sources said. Baburaj was the Muliyeri branch secretary of the CPM while Lijesh a regional secretary of the party's youth wing DYFI..