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The Kerala authorities connected Tuesday (June 16, 2026) filed an entreaty successful the Kerala High Court against the anticipatory bail granted to the accused successful the alleged battle connected Youth Congress-Kerala Students Union (KSU) activists during the Nava Kerala Sadas programme successful Alappuzha.
The peculiar probe squad (SIT), representing the State successful the plea, was tasked with the probe into the battle by gunmen and information officials of the erstwhile Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan successful December 2023.
The accused had approached the Alappuzha District and Sessions Court for anticipatory bail, claiming that the protesters had moved ‘dangerously’ adjacent to the convoy, warranting their actions to support the erstwhile Chief Minister. Bail was granted to the accused, considering that they are constabulary officers who ‘have nary accidental to fly from the clutches of law.’ The tribunal besides observed that the study of the investigating serviceman shows that the indispensable request for the beingness of the accused tin beryllium secured by imposing suitable conditions.
'Faulty observation’
The SIT petition alleged that the Alappuzha tribunal had relied connected ‘factually incorrect observation’ that the canes utilized successful the alleged battle person already been surrendered by the accused. But, the plea said, determination was nary grounds successful the probe records to enactment the court’s finding.
Further, the SIT contended that the restrictions connected custodial interrogation person a superior interaction connected the probe into the substance and requested the tribunal to nonstop the accumulation of each the documents relating to the bail exertion by the accused and to quash the anticipatory bail order, truthful that the SIT tin proceed with the probe into the matter.
