By TCN News,
Kochi: The Popular Front of India yesterday filed an appeal against the Kerala High Court order banning the Freedom Parade. The appeal also requests to let the organisation hold the Parade on Republic Day – January 26, 2012.
The appeal reportedly states that the right of the organisation to express its patriotism and nationalism was prevented by the ban on the Parade. The Freedom Parade has been conducted in different places in Kerala for a few years peacefully. There have never been any problems associated with it, it reportedly added.
The state High Court had earlier refused to involve itself in the petition filed by the PFI against the ban on the Freedom Parade, thus supporting the ban ordered by the District Collectors. The Collectors had banned the Parade scheduled to be held in Manjeri, Thamarassery, Punalur and Chavakkad, and PFI general secretary P Abdul Hameed filed a petition against it in the Kerala High Court. But when considered by the court on August 12, Js Antony Dominic reportedly refused to take any move against the Collectors’ decisions. However, it has been noted that there was no ban or refusal of permission for some parades and marches carried out by the RSS in some places in the state on Independence Day, but rather were given police protection. And several civil rights activists had protested against it.