Coronavirus impact: Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan, Congress flay police action

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday condemned the act of Kannur Superintendent of Police Yathish Chandra, who was seen punishing three people by making them squat on the road, as they ventured out on the streets. “This does not augur well and a report from the officials concerned has been sought. It is acts like these which play spoilsport to the general excellent work done by the police under trying times. These sort of acts won’t be tolerated,” he said as the video of the SP’s action went viral. Kannur is the the home district of Vijayan. However, Chandra told the media that “since we did not want to use the cane against older people, we made them to do it”. “People fail to understand the reason why they are asked to remain home. This is the only way we can keep down the spread and for some reason, people do not understand it,” he said. (IANS)

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