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V.K. Nishad, a CPI(M) councillor convicted successful a case involving an effort to termination constabulary unit by hurling a bomb, has sparked contention aft allegedly violating parole conditions by participating successful a enactment protestation astatine Payyannur successful Kannur. Nishad who is serving a 20-year-prison sentence, had been released connected exigency parole citing his father’s illness.
Rules prohibit parolees from taking portion successful immoderate governmental activities during the parole period. However, Nishad was seen participating successful a CPI(M) protestation held astatine Payyannur connected Monday against expelled enactment person V. Kunhikrishnan. Video footage showing Nishad’s beingness during the protestation has since surfaced, raising questions implicit enforcement of parole norms.
According to sources, Nishad returned to the Kannur Central Jail lone aft the protestation concluded. The alleged usurpation has drawn wide criticism, with demands for enactment implicit what is being termed a breach of parole conditions.
While successful prison, helium contested the section assemblage elections and was elected arsenic a councillor to the Payyanur municipal council.
In November 2025, a tribunal sentenced him to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment. He was granted exigency parole connected December 26, hardly a period aft the conviction, citing the request to be to his father, who reportedly required genu surgery. The aboriginal assistance of parole itself had sparked controversy.
