Assault on Nishad: police seek identity parade

By Our Staff Reporter

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, NOV. 22. The Cantonment Police have filed a case in the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) against five students of the University College here who are wanted in connection with the assault on the KSU(I) activist, Nishad.

The students, who are allegedly SFI activists, had earlier been arrested by the police and had been released on bail by the Judicial First Class Magistrate-III.

The police have submitted before the CJM that the students had cheated the court and the police by providing false addresses while seeking bail. They should, therefore, be summoned for an identification parade.

According to the police, the following are the "correct" names of the students: M. C. Sivaprasad (20), final year BA Hindi, Adarsh S. Kurup (19), second year B.Sc Physics, Shaji. G (20), final year BA Politics, Y.S. Bose (20), second year BA History and C.M. Syamlal (21), first year BA Philosophy.

Nishad (20), who is the general secretary of the Nilamel NSS College union, had been severely beaten up allegedly by SFI activists on November 10. Three students of the NSS College who allegedly colluded with Nishad's assailants, had been arrested earlier.

The Cantonment Police had come in for sharp criticism from the KSU(I) as well as Congress(I) leaders for allegedly making phoney arrests and letting the real culprits escape.

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