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Attack: action against police sought

By Our Staff Reporter

KOZHIKODE, NOV. 28. M.P. Veerendrakumar, MP, has demanded that legitimate action be initiated against those police personnel allegedly involved in the attack on journalists in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday.

`Give up Home'

In a statement today, Mr. Veerendrakumar said that the Chief Minister, Oommen Chandy, should give up the Home portfolio if he was not in a position to conduct an impartial inquiry and initiate appropriate action against the guilty police officers.

Mr. Veerendrakumar said that attack on journalists had become usual these days in the State.

The incident in Thiruvananthapuram was a continuation of the incidents in Kozhikode and Karipur. The journalists were at the receiving end of the attack by the police and the Director General of Police, P.K. Hormese Tharakan, who visited the incident site justified the police action, he said.

He said that at Karipur airport recently, the police had been just onlookers when mediapersons were brutally attacked allegedly by Indian Union Muslim league (IUML) activists. In the incident on Saturday, the police rounded up journalists who were organising a peaceful march and beat them up for no reason, he alleged.

Though the Chief Minister had ordered an inquiry into the incidents at Karipur and Kozhikode, no action was initiated against those guilty of the violence in Thiruvananthapuram, he said.

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