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Only Centre can end Kannur violence, says High Court

Kochi: The Kerala High Court, on Tuesday, observed that the only solution to end the violence in Kannur district seemed to be a timely intervention by the Union government by deploying sufficient forces that “will not yield to the political or plutocratic clout by those in powers and out of power.”

Justice V. Ramkumar expressed the hope that there would be a “gubernatorial move to apprise the Central Government of the urgent need for a permanent prophylactic action to curb further bloodshed and killings in Kannur District where manslaughter is a competing sport.” The court made these observations while ordering an investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the murder of Muhammed Fasal, a National Development Front (NDF) worker in Thalassery. The petitioner, Mariyu, alleged that her husband was murdered by Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) activists because he had defected to the NDF from the party.

The court said that there had not been “any intelligent investigation” into the case.

The court observed that “all-party peace missions are nothing but a hoax to hoodwink the fickle-minded public.” Past lessons showed that restoration of peace and harmony was only “an evanescent episode invariably followed by a history of repeated violence and vindictive vandalism.” No serious concern appeared to have been shown to this manmade holocaust in which the breadwinners of several families had been “slain to death,” driving the widows and children literally to the streets, the judge said. The court observed that if reports were to be believed, Kannur district, particularly Thalassery, had, over the years, become “the hotbed of political violence and carnage of the worst order.” “All political parties there seem to freely indulge in the cult of violence.”

The people of that area, “although very friendly, affable and hospitable to others, turn mad and transform themselves into veritable demons while under the seizure of acute political acrimony,” the court said.

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