Muvatupuzha:(KERALA) Thodupuzha Newman College management has removed Prof. T.J. Joseph from service for his alleged involvement in the question paper controversy.

College manager Mon. Thomas Malekkudi has given him a letter saying that he has been removed from service from September 1.
A college professor who framed a question allegedly defaming the Prophet had his right wrist chopped off Terror outfit popular front
The sweep of pan-Islamism in the southern State of India can no longer be
ignored by police who have so far been slow to pursue the attackers
of the Thodupuzha professor owing to political confusion and callousness towards Christians.
More than two month after Prof TJ Joseph was attacked by militant
Islamists in Muvattupuzha, the Kerala Police have begun to feel that
the incident need not be just a local affair but the top leadership
of the radical Muslim outfit Popular Front of India was involved in
it. The State Home Department under CPI(M) Minister Kodiyeri
Balakrishnan had avoided reaching this conclusion so far despite the
persistent allegations that the professor's right hand was cut off by
PFI hitmen with the knowledge of their State committee. Popular
Front's State president Nazeeruddin Elamaram, general secretary Abdul
Hameed and national council member and theorist P Koya, a professor
by profession, have now been summoned for an evidence-gathering
exercise in the case.
That the State committee of the PFI had knowledge of the plan to
attack Prof Joseph is beyond doubt if one goes by the reports. The
Muvattupuzha local unit of the Islamist outfit had prepared a plan to
take revenge on him -- decreed by a Taliban-model Sharia court as
reports say -- for blaspheming Prophet Muhammad through a question paper he prepared for an internal examination at the Church-run
Newman College. The Ernakulam district committee of the PFI had
reportedly put this plan before the State committee but it opposed it
not because the plan was disgustingly inhuman but because its
implementation could bring serious setbacks to the outfit.
But when the local unit remained adamant, the State committee was said to have been left with no other option but to endorse it. Elamaram and Koya
would be forced to reveal the details of this when they face the
police on August 12 and 16, respectively.
The snail-paced probe by the Kerala Police into the case of Taliban-
model attack on the professor has, however, given clear indications
of how extensive the network of Islamist operatives in god's own
country is. Signs of this have already been there but the police,
caught among the labyrinthine interests of their political bosses,
either could not see that or had deliberately chosen not to see it
for obvious reasons. A Kerala Police team last week visited Bangalore
to question Sarfraz Nawaz, a Malayalee fund-raiser of the LeT who had
part-financed the Bangalore bombings of 2008, in connection with a
book seized during a raid at the house of a PFI leader accused in the
case of attack on the professor. The translator of the book, Islam
and Democracy, was one Sarfaraz Nawaz and the police have got enough
evidence to conclude that the translator was the LeT fund-raiser
himself.
According to security experts, this one instance is ample proof of
how the same Islamists were operating under the umbrellas of
different organisations in Kerala. Activists of Popular Front and the
PDP of Bangalore blasts-accused Abdul Nasser Madani had been caught
in the case relating to the recruitment of youths into the LeT as
back as in end-2008. When the first terror-related case came up in
Kerala after the killing of four Malayalee jihadis in Kashmir in
October, 2008, the first man to be arrested was a former activist of
the NDF (the former avatar of PFI), Abdul Jaleel. The chief executive
of this terror recruitment was none other than LeT's South Indian
boss Thadiyantavide Nazeer, prime accused in several terror cases
including that of the Bangalore bombings, who was also a former PDP
worker. LeT's master bomb-maker Abdul Sattar alias Sainuddin was
Madani's close family friend. Madani's wife Sufiya had even acted as
the local guardian of Sainuddin's daughter in Kochi.
What the Kerala Police have learned by interrogating Sarfaraz Nawaz
is not yet known officially but Intelligence sources informally say
that they have established that the translator of the book, filled
with anti-national content, is no one else. It makes clear the
ominous picture of the inter-organisational network of Islamists
within Kerala and their connections with terror bases abroad. It
explains how the Al Qaeda and Taliban campaign CDs had come to the
house of a PFI leader near Kochi, unearthed in a police raid. It also
explains how these organisations were getting huge amounts of money
from abroad for their extensive operations.
"It is a cleverly constituted network," says a senior official of the
Kerala Police. "We see here several organisations and their sub-
groups operating in their own names and styles. But they all work for
the same goal and they all take their orders from a single command
centre, which need not be based in India. What we are looking at a
very strong arm of the pan-Islamic movement," the official adds.