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On Sunday, a CPI (M) activist was stabbed to death at Sonkal, a small residential area near Kumbla in’s Kasargode district around 10.30 pm, police said.The cops are on the lookout for ancadre Achchu alias Ashwith in connection with the murder.The victim has been identified as Aboobacker Siddique, 21, who lived in Prathap Nagar in Sonkal.It is understood that the motorbike-borne assailants accosted Siddique late on Sunday night and stabbed him to death following a heated argument. Siddique suffered serious gash on his abdomen and succumbed on the way to a private hospital in Mangaluru. His body has been shifted to the medical college hospital in Kannur for postmortem.Kumbla police have registered a case. Sources at Kumbla station said that it doesn’t look like a pre-planned murder.Kasargode Superintendent of Police, A.Srinivas, told Mirror that Siddique objected to the selling of illicit(IMFL) in Prathap Nagar area, which resulted in the murder.Sources further informed that resentment had been brewing between BJP and CPI (M) men over the former's involvement in smuggling illicit liquor from Karnataka and selling it in Sonkal.Srinivas earlier told media that special squads have been formed to nab the assailants. All precautionary measures are in place to prevent further incidents in the district, he said.The CPI (M) has called for a hartal in Manjeshwaram Taluk on Monday afternoon.