MALAPPURAM: A brother and sister were attacked by a moral police gang. The siblings Shimla and Shimshad were beaten up while they were waiting for a bus in Edavanna. The Edavanna police registered a case against five people in the incident. The incident took place when Shimla, a third-year graduate student of Wandoor Cooperative College, and her brother Shimshad, a plus-two student, reached the Edavanna bus stand to go home.

While they were waiting for the bus, a person started recording the footage of both of them alleging that they were lovers. Then when Shimshad and his friends questioned this, a few people joined together and beat Shimshad. In the complaint given to the police, it was said that the panchayat president was also part of the gang that beat the siblings. An investigation was started under the leadership of Edavanna CI V Vijayarajan.

At the same time, yesterday the police removed the flex board erected in the Edavanna bus stand area against the students in the name of 'Janakiya Samiti'.Subsequently, an alternative board was also erected in the name of 'Vidyarthi Paksham Edavanna'.

The contents of Janakiya Samiti's board are that even after leaving school, students are roaming around in the town and parents should be careful about this. The board said that if students are found in the premises after 5 o'clock, the locals will deal with them and hand them over to their parents.

But the students also set up a board showing that the concession time for the students is from 7 am to 7 pm. After the photos went viral on social media, the police removed both the boards.