A.K.JAYASANKARAN NAMBIAR, J.

1. The State of Kerala is the appellant before us aggrieved by the judgment dated 07.03.2018 of the learned Single Judge in W.P.(C) No.6630 of 2018. By the said judgment, the learned Judge transferred the investigation in FIR No. 202/2018 of the Mattannur Police Station from the Special Investigation Team headed by the Inspector General of Police, Kannur District, to the Central Bureau of Investigation [CBI].

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2. The writ petition was preferred by the parents of one Shuhaib, a 27 year old youth who was found hacked to death at Edayannoor, near Mattannur in Kannur District at about 10.50 pm on 12.02.2018. Based on the statement of one Riyas, who was also stated to have been injured during the aforesaid attack on Shuhaib, the Police registered the FIR No.202/2018 under Sections 341, 324, 307, 302 read with Section-34 of the Indian Penal Code[IPC] and under Sections 3 and 5 of the Explosive Substances Act, 1908. The writ petitioners alleged that the attack on Shuhaib was the fallout of a clash between local CPI(M) party workers and Congress Party workers over an incident where the CPI(M) workers allegedly vandalized the Local Cong