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A peculiar squad formed by the Kozhikode Rural constabulary has booked 321 identifiable persons accused of having cardinal engagement successful a clash that broke retired astatine a backstage slaughterhouse discarded attraction institution astatine Ambayathode adjacent Thamarassery successful Kozhikode connected Tuesday (October 21, 2025) during a protestation against the plant. The probe is present progressing nether the nonstop supervision of elder constabulary officers led by Deputy Inspector General of Police (Kannur Range) [DIG] Yathish Chandra.
T. Meharoof, a section person of the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), was named the premier accused successful the archetypal accusation study (FIR). A elder constabulary serviceman with the probe squad said much suspects who took portion successful the clash and attacked constabulary officers would soon beryllium identified aft examining surveillance camera visuals from the spot.
During the clash, elder constabulary officers, including Superintendent of Police (Kozhikode Rural) K.E. Baiju, had sustained injuries. The clash broke retired erstwhile the constabulary tried to disperse the assemblage that turned convulsive successful beforehand of the works arsenic portion of an ongoing protestation against the alleged biology contamination created by the factory. The full loss, arsenic per the archetypal estimates, was ₹5 crore.
Based connected the preliminary probe report, the DIG had stated it arsenic an “organised attack” connected constabulary officers utilizing women and children arsenic shields. He besides said the attackers would beryllium exposed done a technological probe with the enactment of antithetic probe teams arsenic 16 constabulary officers, including the Station House Officer of the Thamarassery constabulary station, sustained superior injuries successful the incident.
Police sources said the transgression spot was inspected by the probe squad successful the beingness of Inspector General of Police Rajpal Meena arsenic portion of gathering much grounds and visuals from closed circuit tv cameras. They said 10 vehicles, including trucks, auto-rickshaws and motorcycles, were acceptable afire by the protesters. Many different vehicles were damaged successful chromatic pelting and vandalism, they said, adding that the cases were registered under Sections 109 (attempts to murder) and 191 (rioting) nether the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
Protesters’ stance
Meanwhile, the leaders of an enactment committee which spearheaded the protestation and observed a hartal successful antithetic parts of Thamarassery connected Wednesday (October 22, 2025) criticised the DIG and alleged that the constabulary were purposefully trying to represent it arsenic an “organised crime” to suppress an agitation which was launched six years agone and to torture guiltless people. They besides condemned the DIG’s connection that women and children were utilized arsenic shields during the protest.
Countering the enactment committee’s claims, the constabulary officers associated with the probe connected Wednesday said the mill gathering and the vehicles were acceptable afire by masked agitators erstwhile galore labourers were moving wrong the factory. Citing video footage arsenic evidence, they pointed retired that determination were deliberate attempts to artifact occurrence engines to the spot and endanger the constabulary officers who tried to negociate the situation.
