Police, Media Bias: Thousands Hold Protest Marches across Kerala

Kozhikkode: Thousands of people staged protest marches today under the banner of Popular Front of India against police who are torturing Muslim youths in the guise of investigation into the assault against controversial professor T J Joseph, an accused in a blasphemy case.
Following the assault on the professor, the state police are haunting innocent Muslim youths, conducting raids at their houses and spreading rumors and trying malign the Popular Front through base less allegations. Certain sections of the media work in connivance with them. Popular Front had organized marches to protest against these attempts to create communal divide in the society.
Popular Front activists held protest marches in the cities and towns across Kerala. Hundreds of people participated in each marches, giving strong warnings to the authorities who are indulged in vilification campaign against Popular Front and its activists. They shouted slogans against certain vicious elements in police force and media organizations.
Instead of arresting real culprits behind the attack on teacher, state authorities are targeting the community as a whole, the protesters alleged. They warned those who are in vain hope of intimidating Popular Front activists through these means that they would withstand all their heinous attempts and come victorious as in earlier cases.