LS polls: CPI promises abolition of CAA, 50 pc cap on reservation in its manifesto
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Kerala DGP Loknath Behera said on Saturday that 33 people have been taken into preventive detention in connection with violence in Kannur district last night.
Late on Friday, miscreants hurled bombs at the house of a Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader and that of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader in Thalassery of Kannur district. The violence in Kannur was part of the state-wide protests against the entry of two women into the Sabarimala temple.
According to reports, bombs were hurled at the house of CPI(M) legislator AM Shamseer at around 10.15 pm.
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Shamseer was at the time attending a peace meeting. Speaking to the media following the incident, the legislator blamed the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
“This was RSS conspiracy,” Shamseer said, adding, “They intend to create violence and destroy the peaceful atmosphere of the state.”
The attack took place when Shamseer was attending a peace meeting organised after protests on Thursday turned violent, leading to the arrest of over 1,300 people.
In an apparent retaliatory attack, a bomb was hurled at former BJP state president and Rajya Sabha MP V Muralidharan’s ancestral home in Kannur.
No person was injured in either incident.
Besides the houses of Shamsheer and Muralidharan, unidentified people also hurled bombs at the house of former Kannur district secretary of CPI(M) P Sasi in Thalassery.
Behera said that sufficient police forces have been deployed mostly in Thalassery to check the violence. Eleven picket posts have been erected in the area and mobile patrolling units have been pressed into action.
Meanwhile Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure has been imposed in some areas of Pathanamthitta district for seven days.
At least 76 cases have been registered in connection with attacks in Pathanamthitta district alone. Behera said that 25 people have been remanded and 204 taken into preventive detention. Around 110 people have been arrested.
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