HC seeks response to plea by V4 Kochi leader
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The Kerala High Court on Monday sought the response of the police to a plea by Nipun Cheriyan, leader of V4 Kochi, for quashing the FIR registered against him in connection with a protest against what he called encroachment by the Kochi Metro Rail Ltd. on the Chilavanoor lake near Elamkulam metro station.
When the petition came up for hearing, the prosecutor submitted that the petitioner and others had trespassed into the water metro work site and introduced themselves as the workers of the Chilavannur Canal Samrakshana Samithi, threatened the workers and took away 55 soil samples kept in a box on the site. The KMRL had incurred a loss of ₹2.25 lakh.
Prison officials likely to get clean chit in youth’s death
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Probe report to be submitted to DGP, Prisons, soon
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Probe report to be submitted to DGP, Prisons, soon
The prison authorities are likely to be given a clean chit in the death of a remand prisoner who had a seizure and collapsed at the Borstal school at Thrikkakara on January 12 and died the day after at Kottayam Government Medical College Hospital.
Shefeek, 35, of Kanjirappally in Kottayam was arrested by the Udayamperoor police and was kept at the Borstal school in the interim period awaiting his COVID-19 test result before being shifted to prison as is the practice now in the case of remand prisoners.
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The deployment of the police and use of strong-arm tactics by the government to suppress people’s movements such as V4Kerala will be countered legally and politically, party leader Nipun Cherian, who got bail recently after over a week’s remand in judicial custody, said here on Monday.
The arrest of V4Kerala activists at midnight from their homes, not adhering to procedures, and the abhorrent language used by police personnel reeked of fascism and were contrary to democratic principles, he said.
On the inordinate delay in opening the Alappuzha bypass, he said the government must open it as soon as possible. The insistence that the Chief Minister or Ministers should inaugurate projects built using public funds was a primitive mindset, he said.
V4 Kochi activists granted bail
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Three activists of V4 Kochi, who allegedly threw open the Vyttila flyover before it was officially inaugurated, were granted bail by a trial court here on Thursday.
K.J. Anjalose, Sooraj Dennis, and P.V. Ralph were those who were granted the bail.
However, the court denied bail to Nipun Cheriyan, the leader of the non-political formation, as he was arraigned as an accused in an earlier case booked under the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act (PDPP).
The bail application of three more activists, who were booked by the police, will come up for the consideration of the Judicial First Class Magistrate on Friday, said the counsel for the accused.
Police continue arrests of V4 Kochi activists
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Outfit accuses police of trampling upon human rights
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Outfit accuses police of trampling upon human rights
The City police continued their arrest of activists of V4 Kochi, the recently launched non-political outfit, with four more getting arrested from their homes in the early hours of Thursday.
The arrested include Shakeer Ali, V4 Kochi Kochi zone controller; Sajan Aziz, Thrikkakara joint controller, and Antony Abin and Isaac Chacko who contested in the Kochi Corporation in the local body polls.
Mr. Chacko, who was arrested under the Kerala Epidemic Diseases Ordinance, was released on station bail, while others were slapped with non-bailable charges.