By Najiya O., TwoCircles.net,
Kochi: The Kerala Government decided to ask the High Court for the service of a sitting judge of District Court for the judicial probe into the Beemapalli police firing. The decision was taken by the Cabinet after the HC rejected the Government appeal for the service of a sitting judge of the HC for the same.
The Home Minister had admitted in the Assembly that the Beemapalli incident was a stain on the Government. The Government ordered for a judicial probe into the matter. It has already distributed compensation to the dependents of the deceased, and has vowed to do whatever necessary if what already done was not enough. However, it got ready to give financial aids only after the strong protest of several Muslim organisations.
Meanwhile, the Samastha Kerala Sunni Yuvajana Sangham has warned that it would begin strong agitation if the Government did not take action against the police officers guilty for the Beemapalli firing. The SKSSF also distributed financial aids to the dependents of the deceased as well as those injured in the police firing. The organisation is the youth wing of the leading Sunni organisation Samastha Kerala Jam’iyyathul Ulema.
Six people lost their lives and several others were seriously injured when the police fired indiscriminately at a crowd in Beemapalli on 17th May. There were clashes between the people of Beemapalli and Cheriyathura in Thiruvananthapuram. Instead of taking measures to control the clashes and detain those responsible for it, the police fired at the people, which resulted in the death of six poor people of the coastal area.