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The Kozhikode District Congress Committee (DCC) has sought enactment against constabulary unit who allegedly attacked Shafi Parambil, Vadakara MP, with ‘lathis’ astatine Perambra recently, and the lawman superintendents of constabulary (DySPs) successful Vadakara and Perambra who “directed” them to bash it.
Addressing the media present connected Sunday (October 12, 2025), DCC president K. Praveenkumar said that helium had filed complaints with the State Police Chief highlighting these demands. “K.E. Baiju, the District Police Chief [Kozhikode Rural], should beryllium fixed a informing arsenic well. If determination is nary enactment connected these demands successful the adjacent five-six days, we volition beryllium forced to motorboat an agitation extracurricular the residence of Mr. Baiju,” helium added.
Meanwhile, Mr. Baiju said during a backstage lawsuit successful Vadakara that immoderate constabulary unit had “deliberately tried to make problems” successful Perambra. He claimed that the Congress MP was deed from down utilizing ‘lathis’, and that artificial quality tools would beryllium utilized to place them. Mr. Baiju, however, reiterated his earlier assertion that determination had been “no lathi charge” against the United Democratic Front (UDF) activists connected the day. “There was a concatenation of bid to motorboat a lathi charge. Nothing of that benignant happened there,” helium added.
Mr. Baiju had earlier claimed that Mr. Parambil could person been injured erstwhile a grenade hurled by the constabulary to easiness the concern burst adjacent him, and that the MP was not deed by ‘lathis’. Videos subsequently released by the media proved him wrong.
Mr. Praveenkumar claimed that Mr. Parambil was deed doubly connected his chemoreceptor and erstwhile connected his caput during the incidental astatine Perambra connected October 10. Thereafter, thoroughfare lights successful the country went off, and constabulary unit disappeared into darkness. The onslaught connected the MP happened aft workers of the UDF and the Left Democratic Front (LDF) came face-to-face portion they were taking retired abstracted protestation marches. They were a fall-out of the struggle betwixt the Students Federation of India and the Kerala Students Union implicit the national predetermination astatine CKG Memorial Government College, Perambra, and a consequent ‘hartal’ called by the UDF implicit the alleged unit by the CPI(M) members.
On the LDF leaders’ allegation that Mr. Parambil was liable for instigating the violence, helium said that the CPI(M) was acting similar the mouthpiece of the police. The Congress person said that the march taken retired by the UDF had a ample fig of participants, portion the 1 taken retired by the LDF had less participants. “The constabulary escorted the LDF march, portion we were stopped connected our way. We were trying to calm down the workers erstwhile the constabulary attacked Mr. Parambil. A grenade was hurled astatine america though the authoritative process to usage it was not followed,” Mr. Praveenkumar claimed.
