By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent,
Kozhikode: The Popular Front of India has been permitted to hold the public rally in Kozhikode on Friday after the organisation’s leaders held talks with the state DGP. The DGP’s permission was secured after the PFI promised to hold the rally and public meeting peacefully and without any provocations, according to reports.
The public meeting and rally to protest against the alleged Muslim hunt of the police, government and certain media was refused permission by the Kozhikode City Police Commissioner last day. The intelligence reports had reportedly warned of a conflict in the progamme to be held at 5 pm on Friday. This had prompted the Commissioner to refuse to give permission yesterday.
Meanwhile, permission has been denied for the rally to be held today at Perumbavur, according to reports. The PFI had reportedly announced that it would hold public meeting and rally at Kozhikode, Perumbavur and Kollam.
The PFI’s Freedom Parade has been banned by the authorities in Kozhikode, Kottayam, Aluva and Kannur due to the suspected involvement of PFI activists in the case of attack on a controversial professor. So it was assumed that a large number of people may turn up at the rally and public meeting which might make it hard to control.