Overview

• Kerala’s Kozhikode rural police chief K. E. Baiju said there was no sanctioned lathi-charge at Perambra and that some personnel deliberately used batons, with video analysis under way to identify those responsible.
• Visuals reviewed by police showed Shafi Parambil being struck from behind, countering earlier claims that dispersal measures alone caused his injuries.
• FIRs under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections for unlawful assembly, rioting and assault on public servants name Parambil and roughly 600–700 Congress workers, as police allege road obstruction and stone-pelting that left about 10 officers injured.
• Congress has launched statewide protests, announced plans to move the Parliamentary Committee on Privileges, and staged dharnas where several activists were detained.
• Parambil sustained fractures to both nasal bones and underwent surgery in Kozhikode, while LDF leaders accuse him of instigating violence and police have also registered a separate case against hundreds of LDF workers for unlawful assembly.