In a major security breach, a Youth Congress (YC) activist jumped in front of the official car of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, forcing an unscheduled stoppage of the cavalcade near the Collectorate Junction in Kakkanad on Friday around 1 p.m.
Sony Pananthanam, Youth Congress Ernakulam Niyojaka Mandalam block general secretary, was arrested by the Thrikkakara police and removed from the spot making way for the cavalcade to resume its journey.
He was booked under IPC Sections 332 (committing voluntary harm or hurt to a public servant in order to deter him from doing his duties) and 333 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt to deter public servant from his duty) 353 (causing an obstruction in the duty of a public servant with the use of assault and criminal force with the intention to stop the public servant from performing his duty), among others. He was produced in court and remanded later in the night.
