E-mail controversy: CB finds crucial evidence

KOZHIKODE: Corroborating their claims on the controversial e-mail snooping, the Crime Branch special team has collected crucial evidence of conspiracy behind the fabrication of fake letter that was passed to the media by Hi-tech Cell SI Biju Salim.The officials on Saturday visited the headquarters of the magazine, here, that published the report that e-mails of 258 members of a particular community had been hacked.The Special team led  by Crime Branch DySP  Radhakrishna Pillai reached Kozhikode on Saturday morning with Biju Salim, who is in remand till March 27. Highly placed sources with the Crime Branch said that they had collected evidence from a native of Kozhikode on Saturday, whose name was mentioned by Biju Salim during the interrogation that took place at the Police headquarters in Thiruvananthapuram.The conspiracy was hatched in Kozhikode and Thiruvananthapuram and some other top police officials were also involved in this activity along with SI Biju Salim. Sources added that the information obtained from the investigation conducted in Kozhikode regarding the case was crucial and it was highly supporting the statement the police had made before the Thiruvananthapuram judicial magistrate court on Tuesday that Biju Salim had links with banned religious fundamental outfits.The police also got crucial information of the meeting of the Hi-tech Cell officer with the members of  banned extremist outfits in Kozhikode. After leaking a list of 268 e-mail ids to a section of the media along with a forged letter made out in the name of SP Jayamohan to Hi-tech Crime Inquiry Cell Assistant Commissioner N Vinayakumaran Nair,Biju Salim, a native of Kaniyapuram in Thirvuananthapuram conducted a tour to Kozhikode. The two mobile phones used by Biju was switched off during the journey, said sources.This is for the first time that the Crime Branch team is coming to Kozhikode with the accused Biju Salim, who was booked under the Official Secrets Act and various sections of the IPC for whipping up sentiments of a particular community.