Overview
- Police registered six cases naming 321 suspects, identifying 21 so far, after a protest at the Fresh Cut poultry waste unit near Thamarassery turned violent.
- The FIR lists local DYFI leader T. Meharoof as the prime accused, and a DIG-led team headed by Yathish Chandra is supervising the investigation using CCTV and other visuals.
- Officers report an organised attack by masked agitators who set the factory and vehicles ablaze and impeded fire engines, a narrative the protest committee disputes.
- Initial estimates put losses at about ₹5 crore, with 10 vehicles torched and 16 police personnel injured, including Kozhikode Rural SP K. E. Baiju.
- CPI(M) leaders now allege SDPI activists triggered the violence, a claim the SDPI denies, as residents continue to cite foul odour and river pollution in their long-running campaign against the plant.