CPI(M) fails to stop PFI's thuggery! PFI goons intimidate crews of private news channels for reporting on hate speech rally issue

As per the reports, PFI goons have issued a threat to Republic and Times Now news channels. Reportedly, PFI goons heckled and intimidated the crew members of both channels in Ernakulam when they were trying to report from the residence of the kid who was heard raising the hate slogans. On camera, they were asked 'to stop reporting, and leave the locality, or bear the consequences.

 

A video of the incident went viral on social media. In a video, some members belonging to the PFI are seen confronting the crew of a private news channel. They asked the crew to "stop reporting, and leave the locality, or bear the consequences."

 

 

"It would be better for you if you leave," one of the men can be heard saying in the video, shot outside the minor boy’s residence.

 

 

 

The crew was trying to trace the minor boy who delivered the provocative slogans during the "Save the Republic" rally held by the PFI in Alappuzha on May 21."Hindus should keep rice for their last rites, and Christians should keep incense sticks for their last rites. If your live decently, you can live in our land, and if you don’t live decently, we know Azadi (freedom). Live decently," the boy was heard saying in the video from the rally.

 

Meanwhile, the Kerala police took 24 PFI members into custody from various parts of the state. The people taken into custody on Friday are those who reportedly repeated the slogan after the boy.

 

Earlier, the police had arrested PFI Alappuzha district president Navas Vandanam and Ansar Najeeb, a PFI activist from Erattupetta in Kottayam. All the accused have been booked under Sections 153A (Promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion), 295A (Deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class), 505(1)(b) (Act against the public tranquillity), 505(1)(c), 505(2) and 506 (Criminal intimidation) of the IPC and 120(O) of Kerala Police Act.