Change by eveningHowever, he changed his stance by evening and convened a press meet to endorse the UDF claim that the suspects were CPI sympathisers. “All of them are CPI activists and the murder was part of a conspiracy hatched by the CPI local leadership,” he said in the evening. They have no known CPI connections other than just sympathy for that party,” he said in the morning. Mr. Sirajudheen said the animosity between his son and the accused went a long a way back. It seems, he apparently changed his stance under UDF pressure by evening.

Source: The Hindu February 28, 2018 18:11 UTC