Barely hours before the Puthuppally byelection on Tuesday, the State government moved to drop the unlawful assembly case registered against at least 1,000 Nair Service Society (NSS) members in Thiruvananthapuram for taking out a prayer procession on August 2 to protest Speaker A.N. Shamseer’s remark about the difference between science and religion.
CPI(M) leader K. Anilkumar told television channels in Kottayam that imputing any political or electoral motive in the decision was wrong.
The police had registered the case as part of standard legal procedure. The government had said earlier that it would seek a legal opinion about the case to verify its constitutionality, Mr. Anil claimed.
