Aji Krishnan, founder-secretary of the controversial non-governmental organisation named Highrange Rural Development Society (HRDS), was arrested in connection with a tribal land grab case in Attappady on Monday night.
A court at Mannarkkad remanded him in police custody until Wednesday. The court denied him bail considering the prosecution’s argument that there were similar complaints against Aji Krishnan and several co-accused were to be nabbed.
Police detained Aji Krishnan within hours after he returned from abroad and landed at Attappady on Monday. His arrest was recorded late at night in connection with a complaint that Raman, a tribesman from Vattilakki hamlet at Sholayur panchayat in Attappady, had filed about a year ago. Charges of tribal land grabbing, burning tribal huts, and humiliating by calling caste names, were slapped against Aji Krishnan.
