Damage to Mahatma Gandhi photograph: Two employees of Rahul’s Wayanad workplace amongst 4 arrested

By PTI

WAYANAD: Four folks, together with two employees of Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s Wayanad workplace, have been arrested on Friday for allegedly inflicting harm to Mahatma Gandhi’s photograph practically two months in the past when an SFI protest march led to violence on the premises.

On June 24, Students Federation of India (SFI) activists took out a protest march in the direction of the Wayanad MP’s workplace right here on the Eco-Sensitive Zone (ESZ) problem.

A Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case arrested the 4 after summoning them for interrogation.

They have been later launched on bail, a senior police officer stated.

The arrested folks have been charged underneath Indian Penal Code (IPC) Section 153 (wantonly giving provocation with intent to trigger riot).

Congress chief and Kalpetta MLA T Siddique stated two of the arrested individuals have been employees of Rahul Gandhi’s workplace — one Personal Assistant (PA) and a helper — whereas two others have been occasion employees.

Strongly protesting towards the arrest, he alleged that the costs towards the Congress employees have been fabricated.

“The arrest was done with the complete knowledge of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. He took such a step to appease the BJP ruling the Centre,” Siddique alleged.

KPCC president Ok Sudhakaran additionally alleged the police motion towards the Congress employees was “a part of a conspiracy centered around the Chief Minister’s Office”.

“Kerala government and police are taking the approach of making the plaintiff the accused. The arrest is politically motivated. The Chief Minister should clarify on what evidence that the innocent Congress workers were arrested. Even before the police investigation started, the Chief Minister had announced that the accused were Congressmen,” Sudhakaran stated in a press release.

CPI(M) chief and state PWD Minister P A Muhammed Riyas stated the Congress ought to take disciplinary motion towards its employees who broken Gandhi’s photograph and put the blame on the SFI employees.

The Congress had alleged that the photograph of Mahatma Gandhi, which was hanging on the wall of Rahul Gandhi’s workplace, was broken in the course of the vandalism of the Wayanad MP’s workplace at Kalpetta allegedly by SFI activists on June 24.

The SFI activists had held a protest march to Gandhi’s workplace and had allegedly vandalised his workplace claiming inaction on his behalf in reference to the difficulty of Ecologically Sensitive Zones (ESZ) round forests.

WAYANAD: Four folks, together with two employees of Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s Wayanad workplace, have been arrested on Friday for allegedly inflicting harm to Mahatma Gandhi’s photograph practically two months in the past when an SFI protest march led to violence on the premises.

On June 24, Students Federation of India (SFI) activists took out a protest march in the direction of the Wayanad MP’s workplace right here on the Eco-Sensitive Zone (ESZ) problem.

A Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case arrested the 4 after summoning them for interrogation.

They have been later launched on bail, a senior police officer stated.

The arrested folks have been charged underneath Indian Penal Code (IPC) Section 153 (wantonly giving provocation with intent to trigger riot).

Congress chief and Kalpetta MLA T Siddique stated two of the arrested individuals have been employees of Rahul Gandhi’s workplace — one Personal Assistant (PA) and a helper — whereas two others have been occasion employees.

Strongly protesting towards the arrest, he alleged that the costs towards the Congress employees have been fabricated.

“The arrest was done with the complete knowledge of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. He took such a step to appease the BJP ruling the Centre,” Siddique alleged.

KPCC president Ok Sudhakaran additionally alleged the police motion towards the Congress employees was “a part of a conspiracy centered around the Chief Minister’s Office”.

“Kerala government and police are taking the approach of making the plaintiff the accused. The arrest is politically motivated. The Chief Minister should clarify on what evidence that the innocent Congress workers were arrested. Even before the police investigation started, the Chief Minister had announced that the accused were Congressmen,” Sudhakaran stated in a press release.

CPI(M) chief and state PWD Minister P A Muhammed Riyas stated the Congress ought to take disciplinary motion towards its employees who broken Gandhi’s photograph and put the blame on the SFI employees.

The Congress had alleged that the photograph of Mahatma Gandhi, which was hanging on the wall of Rahul Gandhi’s workplace, was broken in the course of the vandalism of the Wayanad MP’s workplace at Kalpetta allegedly by SFI activists on June 24.

The SFI activists had held a protest march to Gandhi’s workplace and had allegedly vandalised his workplace claiming inaction on his behalf in reference to the difficulty of Ecologically Sensitive Zones (ESZ) round forests.