KOZHIKODE: Police have arrested five people, including CPM local secretary, over the incident in which a student and her brother faced a moral policing attack at Edavanna. The arrested people are CPM Edavanna local secretary Jaffer Moolangodan, panchayat member Jaseel, Gafoor Thuvvakkad, Kareem Mundengara, and Muhammad Ali Thrikkalangodu. The accused were arrested on the complaint lodged by a young woman, a native of Othayi. The accused were later released on station bail.

The young woman and her brother were subjected to a moral policing attack at the bus stand on July 13. The complainant is a third-year graduate student of Vandoor Cooperative College. Her brother is a Plus Two student Both of them reached the Edavanna bus stand to go home. In the meantime, one person captured the footage of the two accusing them of behaving immorally in public. When the woman's brother and his friends questioned this, the accused beat them up. Following this, the police registered a case against 5 persons.