The police caning Opposition activists who tried to barge into the NIA office in Kochi on Sunday when the accused in the gold smuggling case were brought there. H. Vibhu.
Opposition seeks to bring Chief Minister’s Office under ambit of investigation
Workers of the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) shouted slogans against Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan as the motorcade of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) escorting the accused in the gold-smuggling case swept past them as it sped from Palakkad to Kochi on Sunday.
The anti-government protests that violated physical- distancing strictures and threw caution against the transmission of COVID-19 to the wind unfolded across the State for the third consecutive day. The Opposition parties attempted to convert the optics of the televised daytime spectacle of the accused being brought to court into a damning indictment of the al