By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala state Congress party has blamed the state Left Front government’s Home Department for the death of six persons from the Muslim fishing community in violence and police firing at Cheriathura on May 17.
Ramesh Chennithala, president Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee, alleged that the state Home Department had been trying to protect the officials responsible for the police action at Cheriathura. He demanded that the policemen responsible for the firing should be charged with murder.
He also said the failure of the police to take an anti-social element into custody in time had resulted in the build-up of tension and the clash. Higher police officials did not go to the spot or take steps to control the situation, he alleged.
Chennithala demanded the state government to increase the assistance to the families of the dead to Rs.15 lakh. The state government has announced the assistance of Rs 10 each to the family of the dead.