Police’s treatment against KSU leaders barbaric and unacceptable: KPCC chief Sunny Joseph

Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president Sunny Joseph has strongly condemned the Wadakkancherry police for producing the arrested Kerala College students Union (KSU) leaders in courtroom with black garments protecting their faces and their fingers cuffed, calling it an act “unfit for a civilised society and completely deplorable.”

Talking to the media on Saturday after visiting KSU leaders Ganesh Attur, Al Ameen, and Aslam, who have been at present in remand on the Viyyur Sub Jail, and KSU State president Aloshious Xavier and others held on the Erumapetty police station, Mr. Joseph stated the police had acted as stooges of the Communist Celebration of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)].

“Even the courtroom questioned the inhuman and unlawful behaviour of the Wadakkancherry police and issued a show-cause discover to the Station Home Officer (SHO). The House division should clarify this breach of police norms,” Mr. Joseph stated.

He stated the unlawful and vindictive use of the police drive in opposition to political opponents was a part of the Pinarayi authorities’s technique, and Congress would problem it each inside and outdoors the Meeting.

Mr. Joseph added that such steady excesses by the police have been “a shame to the democracy” and warned that the Congress wouldn’t enable the State authorities to weaponize the police for partisan ends.

In the meantime, senior Congress chief M.M. Hassan urged the Communist Celebration of India (CPI) to affix the Congress in resisting what he known as “the Pinarayi authorities’s police terror.”

“Even the CPI delegates at their very own State convention have been handled with suspicion and subjected to steel detector checks. It exhibits that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan doesn’t belief even his allies,” Mr. Hassan stated.

He added that the CPI, which as soon as stood for the slogan “govern and protest” throughout the EMS period, had now change into submissive underneath Pinarayi’s rule.

“It’s time for CPI leaders like Binoy Viswam to rethink. They need to be a part of the Congress in resisting the brutality, assaults, and repression occurring throughout the State,” Mr. Hassan stated.

He additionally known as the act of manufacturing the KSU leaders within the courtroom in black masks a “gross human rights violation” and alleged that Wadakkancherry SHO Shajahan was appearing as a “CPI(M) henchman.” He warned that the Congress would pursue authorized motion to make sure that officers like Mr. Shajahan face penalties, and stated that those that assaulted Youth Congress chief V.S. Sujith in Kunnamkulam have to be dismissed from service, not merely suspended.