The Kerala Police on Sunday arrested nine students of the Sree Krishna College in Guruvayur, Thrissur in connection with the publication of obscene remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the annual magazine of the students’ union of the college.
Those arrested were members of the college’s magazine advisory committee and belonged to the SFI, the students’ wing of the CPI(M). The students’ union of the college was under the SFI. The Guruvayur Police recorded the arrest of the students after they appeared at the police station by noon on Sunday.
The police had registered a case against 12 people, including those arrested on Sunday, for making obscene references to Modi, spiritual leader Mata Amritanandamayi and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi in the campus magazine, Name. The college principal who was chief editor of the magazine, its staff editor and the students’ editor were also named as accused.
The police had last week arrested seven people, including the students’ editor, staff editor and former principal in connection with the defaming of Modi in the campus magazine of the Government Polytechnic College at Kunnamkulam in Thrissur district. In this case also, the students’ union was under the control of the SFI.
The magazine, titled litsokniga, had published Modi’s photograph along with those of Osama bin laden, Veluppillai Prabhakaran, Adolf Hitler, Veerappan and others under the title, ‘Negative Faces’.