SIT to investigate attack by former CM’s security personnel on YC activists

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State Police Chief of Kerala Ravada A. Chandrasekhar connected Tuesday constituted a peculiar probe squad (SIT) to transportation retired an enquiry into the alleged atrocities of constabulary unit against Youth Congress workers during the Left Democratic Front government’s Navakerala Sadas Vehicle Rally successful 2023.

Shoukathali, Superintendent of Police, Crime Branch, Alappuzha, volition caput the SIT which volition person six different members.

Baiju Poulose, DySP, Crime Branch, Ernakulam; Tolson, Inspector of Police, Medical College Police Station; Jayakrishnan, Sub-inspector of Police, Crime Branch Alappuzha; Rajesh, ASI, Alappuzha South Police Station; Deendayal Mallan, SI(G), Crime Branch, Alappuzha; and Amrutharaj S.R., SI(G), DHQ, Alappuzha, are the different members.

The SIT has been tasked to implicit the probe expeditiously wrong a play of 1 period from the day of commencement. The SIT caput volition taxable a fortnightly advancement study to the SPC.

The Alappuzha South constabulary had successful December 2023 registered a lawsuit against erstwhile Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s gunman Anil Kumar and constabulary serviceman Sandeep S. who allegedly attacked Youth Congress and Kerala Students Union activists successful a “brutal” mode successful Alappuzha.

The activists who raised slogans against the authorities erstwhile the Navakerala bus, ferrying the State Cabinet to a Navakerala Sadas successful the Ambalapuzha Assembly constituency, was passing by General Hospital Junction successful Alappuzha sustained injuries aft the information unit with lathis bushed them up.

In October 2024, the Crime Branch probing the incidental gave the constabulary officers a cleanable chit. In the last study submitted earlier the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court successful Alappuzha, the CB stated that the constabulary officers were simply carrying retired their nonrecreational responsibilities by preventing 2 Youth Congress-KSU activists, Ajay Jewel Kuriakose and A.D. Thomas, from rushing towards the conveyance of the Chief Minister, who comes nether Z-plus class information cover.

Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan, addressing the media aft the caller United Democratic Front government’s archetypal Cabinet gathering connected Monday, said that adjacent though the magistrate tribunal successful Alappuzha had issued an bid for reinvestigation, the LDF authorities did not instrumentality immoderate enactment successful this regard.

He said the UDF government’s actions cannot beryllium interpreted arsenic governmental vendetta arsenic it was simply carrying retired the court’s bid by forming the SIT. 

Published - May 19, 2026 08:34 p.m. IST

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