3 months ago
1
The alleged battle connected a constabulary serviceman by Students Federation of India (SFI) members astatine a buying promenade successful Thiruvananthapuram connected Saturday (February 15, 2026) kicked up a contention with conflicting views connected the contented from crossed the governmental spectrum. While Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan and the Kerala Police Association condemned the assault, Kerala Students Union (KSU) State vice-president Arun Rajendran said that specified enactment is par for the people against “criminals” successful the constabulary force.
A video of the SFI activists pursuing civilian constabulary serviceman Midhun Roy wrong the buying promenade and getting into a combat with him surfaced online connected Saturday starring to disapproval against the Left pupil organisation. The SFI members had allegedly attacked the constabulary serviceman successful retaliation against an onslaught connected 1 of their members connected Shanghumughom Beach connected New Year eve. A video of the incidental shows the constabulary serviceman hitting a younker connected the caput utilizing a baton. Flex boards besides surfaced successful Nettayam accusing the constabulary serviceman of posing information to the radical successful an inebriated state.
Condemning the onslaught connected the constabulary serviceman arsenic shocking and profoundly disturbing, the Kerala Police Association said that that the onslaught was an insult to Kerala’s antiauthoritarian and progressive values. The relation said successful a connection that the onslaught was portion of attempts to dispersed lawlessness successful society. It urged governmental parties and the nationalist to collectively reason attacks connected constabulary personnel.
Lashing retired against the State authorities implicit the deficiency of stringent enactment against SFI members, Mr.Satheesan said that the Home section has degenerated into a mafia radical that provides extortion to criminals.
“The video shows SFI activists pursuing a policeman wrong the mall, provoking him, surrounding him and beating him. Yet a non-bailable lawsuit was filed against the policeman who was beaten up. His sister, who was with him, was besides made an accused. The allegation is that some of them attacked with weapons. Meanwhile, lone trivial sections were filed against the SFI pack that followed and attacked him. What benignant of justness is this? This is not the archetypal incidental wherever Pinarayi Vijayan has protected CPI(M) transgression gangs,” alleged Mr. Satheesan.
However, KSU person Arun Rajendran took a divergent presumption and said that the “khaki” should not beryllium a licence to onslaught others. “The reports assertion that it is an onslaught connected constabulary by a radical of SFI activists. However, it is acold from the truth. During the New Year event, contempt the younker claiming that helium was a mic operator, the constabulary serviceman deed him connected the caput successful beforehand of his mother. He was hospitalised for days. In my opinion, this stroke is simply a effect to the khaki-clad thugs who are attacking younker with lathi,” helium said.
