Kerala HC seeks LDF govt stand on a plea claiming arrest and detention for waving black flags is illegal
The Kerala High Court has sought a response from the LDF government and the state police on a plea seeking to declare that the arrest and detention for waving black flags in protest are illegal and unconstitutional.
The Kerala High Court has sought a response from the LDF government and the state police on a plea seeking to declare that the arrest and detention for waving black flags in protest are illegal and unconstitutional.
Besides, the plea has also sought a probe into alleged professional misconduct by the authorities concerned, who on June 11 had taken into preventive custody two transgenders who arrived at an event near Kaloor metro station here wearing black attire. Were. They had come there to protest.
The high court directed the lawyer for the state government and the police to file a statement or counter-affidavit with all supporting documents and listed the matter for hearing on August 11.
The plea has also sought direction from the police to provide documents related to the alleged illegal detention of transgenders to the petitioner.
The transgenders claimed that they were going to the metro station, but were detained by the police as they were wearing black and the chief minister was attending an event nearby.
On the other hand, the police had argued that both were BJP workers who had reached there to protest.
The Congress and the BJP had staged widespread protests and waved black flags at Vijayan after the revelations by Swapna Suresh, an accused in the gold-smuggling through diplomatic bags case.
