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Youth Congress leaders end fast

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Eight Youth Congress leaders, who have been going without food in the jail here, protesting against the denial of proper medical treatment to them, ended their fast on Saturday.

A Youth Congress press release issued here on Saturday said they did so following an appeal from Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee president Ramesh Chennithala, coming on top of the advice of doctors who found their health condition deteriorating. They had been shifted from the jail to the medical college hospital here.

The eight leaders, including Youth Congress vice presidents K.P. Sreekumar and M. Muneer, had reportedly sustained injuries during the police action against the organisation’s recent demonstration before the secretariat in connection with the textbook issue. The release quoted Mr. Chennithala as saying that the legal provisions invoked while charge-sheeting them were the stiffest the police could ferret out from the Indian Penal Code.

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