Alappuzha (Kerala): Popular Front of India leader Yahiya Thangal has been taken into custody for making controversial remarks against High Court judges. Popular Front State Committee member Yahiya Thangal was arrested by a special investigation team led by the Alappuzha Deputy SP from Thrissur on Sunday morning.
Yahiya Thangal was the organiser of the controversial rally of the Popular Front, which was taken out in Alappuzha of Kerala. In the rally in Alappuzha, Tangal said, "Courts are getting shocked easily now. High court judges are getting shocked after hearing the slogans of our Alappuzha rally. Do you know the reason? The reason is that their innerwear is saffron. Since it's saffron, they will get heated very fast. You will feel the burn and it will disturb you."
The rally was taken out in protest against the arrest of the father of the minor boy, who made a provocative sloganeering in a PFI rally recently. It is noteworthy that Yahiya Thangal was present at the protest staged by the Popular Front on Saturday alleging that the Popular Front leaders were being harassed by the police.
On Friday, the Kerala High Court directed police to take appropriate action against the Popular Front of India in connection with alleged provocative sloganeering in connection with the May 21 rally taken out in Alappuzha. The Kerala police on Friday arrested 18 more people in connection with the PFI sloganeering case.
In the viral video, a boy in a PFI rally in Alappuzha was seen raising the slogan that "Hindus should keep rice for their last rites and Christians should keep incense sticks for their last rites. If your live decently, you can live in our land and if you don't live decently, we know Azadi (freedom). Live decently." Yahiya Thangal is being questioned by a team of investigators at a secret place in the wake of possible protests from the Popular Front of India.
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