Court orders further probe into alleged assault on YC workers by E.P. Jayarajan aboard flight

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The Thiruvananthapuram Judicial First Class Magistrate Court connected Tuesday ordered further probe into the alleged battle connected Youth Congress workers by elder CPI(M) person E.P. Jayarajan aboard an IndiGo formation during a protestation against erstwhile Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan 4 years ago.

The bid was issued by the tribunal aft Farzeen Majeed, 1 of the Youth Congress workers, challenged a constabulary study that had concluded that determination was insufficient grounds to proceed against Mr. Jayarajan. The tribunal directed the Valiyathura Station House Officer (SHO) to behaviour a elaborate investigation, including an introspection of CCTV footage and different disposable evidence, and taxable a broad report.

The incidental had taken spot successful June 2022, erstwhile Mr. Majeed and different Youth Congress activistic R.K. Naveen Kumar staged a protestation aboard the formation which had arrived successful Thiruvananthapuram from Kannur.

The Valiyathura constabulary person registered a lawsuit for attempted execution against 4 Youth Congress workers connected the ground of a ailment by Mr. Jayarajan, contempt the protesters maintaining that they had lone raised slogans wrong the aircraft, portion the CPI(M) person had allegedly attacked them.

Based connected complaints by the Youth Congress activists, a abstracted lawsuit had been registered against Mr. Jayarajan. Former Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s gunman, Anil Kumar, was besides named arsenic an accused successful the case.

However, during the last days of the erstwhile Left Democratic Front (LDF) government’s tenure, the constabulary submitted a study stating that Mr. Jayarajan could not beryllium implicated successful the lawsuit owed to deficiency of evidence. The study was subsequently filed earlier the court.

Published - June 16, 2026 08:01 p.m. IST

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