PFI leader held for attack on lecturer

Recently,a dentist,an active PFI worker,had been arrested on charges of sedition. Dr Raneef,a native of Aluva near Kochi,had given first aid to one of the assailants who was injured during the attack. Two books that speak against democracy have been recovered from the doctor,who had been associated with extremist activities since 2002. Copies of one of the seized books,Islam and Democracy,had been recovered from a SIMI camp held in 2006 at Aluva.

Meanwhile,district collectors of Ernakulam,Kottayam and Kozhikode have banned the freedom parade the PFI had been planning to take out on Independence Day. The police have warned that the situation prevailing after the attack on the lecturer,was not conducive to the parade,an annual event.