Supreme Court lawyer and human rights activist Prashant Bhushan on March 9 alleged that the death of Sidharthan J.S. , a second-year student of the College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences at Pookode in Wayanad, illustrated the kind of ‘gundagiri’ (hooliganism) involving the cadres of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Students Federation of India (SFI) in Kerala.
“It is unfortunate that the police and the agencies do not act with a kind of alacrity with which they have to act. This is unfortunately a problem that I am witnessing in the State. The CPI(M) and its cadres have clearly been violating the rules of law and the same thing we are seeing in the centre, where lynch mobs are given free rein to do whatever they want to do. It is now being seen in Kerala with regard to the cadres of the CPI(M) and the SFI in the manner in which they treat other people. This must be stopped,” he told a Meet-the-Press programme organised by the Ernakulam Press Club in connection with the forthcoming Lok Sabha election.
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