CPM Embarrassed

In further embarrassment to CPI(M) in Kerala, senior leader M M Mani was on  Wednesday arrested and remanded to judicial custody for refusing to turn up for a  polygraph test in connection with a political murder case, re-opened in the wake of a  controversial speech made by him. Mani, who had triggered controversy by stating that  his party had in the past eliminated some foes in Idukki district, was picked up from his  house at Kunhithanni near Idukki in the wee hours and was remanded to judicial custody  by the Judicial Magistrate at Nedumkandan after medical examination at the police  station.