7-October-2005
SOCM forum dt. 7th /October/2005
Trikkunnath Seminary Incident - 7 police officers suspended from servicee
July 04, 2005 was indeed a black day for all the Jacobite believers across the world, which we can never forget. Police brutally lathi-charged (chasing and caning) the priests and believers assembled at Aluva St. Mary's Church on Sunday, in support of the hunger-strike of the Catholicose H.B. Baselious Thomas I. The Catholicos started his `Fast until death' protesting the government support given to Orthodox Catholicose-designate to enter into the Trikkunnath Seminary Chapel on Saturday evening, while the area was under CrPC 144 ban.
The video clippings of the police brutality at Aluva St Mary’s Church against innocent priests, nuns, aged men and women would put to tears a stone hearted person. The police brutality at Kozhikkode Kakkayam camp during emergency was nothing when it is compared with the police brutality at Kalamassery police camp.
After an investigation, government of Kerala suspended 7 police officers from the service, who are responsible to this brutal act.
Source: SOCM forum, Digest Number 1391
Malayala Manorama dt. 7th /October/2005