A court in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday found CPI (M) leaders A.A. Rahim, MP, and M. Swaraj guilty in a case relating to a violent protest taken out by activists of the party’s feeder organisations against the education policies of the Oommen Chandy government in 2014.
The Thiruvananthapuram Judicial First Class Magistrate Court 4 sentenced the duo to imprisonment for a year and also imposed a fine of ₹5,000. Having obtained bail later in the day, the CPI (M) leaders said they would approach the High Court against the judgment.
Mr. Rahim and Mr. Swaraj, who were then Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) leaders, participated in a demonstration taken out to the official residence of the then Education Minister P.K. Abdu Rabb on July 30, 2014. Several police personnel and protesters were injured in the protest.
