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The peculiar probe squad (SIT) probing the ‘kafir screenshot’ lawsuit has arrested a section person of the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), the younker organisation of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)].
Jithin Bhaskaran, the arrested activist, is simply a subordinate of the DYFI’s Vadakara artifact committee. He was interrogated by the SIT successful transportation with the lawsuit connected Tuesday (June 16, 2026) and the apprehension was recorded thereafter. Mr. Bhaskaran is the admin of the ‘Vadakara Squad’ WhatsApp group. He has been booked nether assorted sections of the Indian Penal Code.
The lawsuit is related to a screenshot with communal contented that had surfaced connected the eve of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections successful Vadakara. The contented was utilized against United Democratic Front (UDF) campaigner Shafi Parambil. Mr. Parambil aboriginal won the predetermination defeating the Left Democratic Front’s (LDF) K.K. Shailaja.
Muslim Youth League activistic Mohammed Kasim was initially named arsenic an accused successful the case. Subsequently, a caller probe was held aft the involution of the Kerala High Court. The constabulary aboriginal concluded that Ribesh Ramakrishnan, who was past a DYFI leader, was the archetypal idiosyncratic reported to person shared the screenshot. They besides submitted a study successful the tribunal saying that it was becoming hard to find the root from wherever Mr. Ramakrishnan had procured the screenshot.
The probe was reopened a fewer weeks agone aft the UDF authorities came to powerfulness and formed the SIT.
The SIT thereafter questioned the admins of the ‘Vadakara Squad’ radical and decided to grow the probe to ‘Kadathanadu Sakhakkal’ and ‘Bavuppara Sakhakkal’ WhatsApp groups aft it reportedly obtained caller leads successful the case. Mr. Ramakrishnan, on with Manish and Amal, 2 witnesses successful the case, reportedly told the investigators that the arguable screenshot had been received done the ‘Vadakara Squad’ group. Mr. Bhaskaran was reported to person shared it there. He had been questioned by the SIT earlier arsenic well.
The constabulary are reportedly awaiting forensic reports to found the root and circulation of the screenshot. However, the territory DYFI enactment precocious alleged that the probe was being utilized to country its activists astatine the behest of the UDF and the Youth Congress.
