ALAPPUZHA: Police have registered a case against Chief Minister's gunman Anil Kumar and security officer Sandeep S for beating up Youth Congress workers who protested against the Nava Kerala yatra. The Alappuzha South Police registered the case on the instructions of the Alappuzha Judicial Magistrate Court. The officials have been booked under non-bailable charges.

The case has been registered by naming Anil Kumar as the first accused and Sandeep as the second accused. The gunman beat up the Youth Congress workers while they were in police custody. Youth Congress State General Secretary Adv Ajay Jewel and KSU District President Eddie Thomas filed the petition in Alappuzha Judicial First Class Magistrate Court. The petition sought to file a case under IPC 294B, 326,324 against Chief Minister's gunman Anil and security officer Sandeep.

On the 16th, when the Chief Minister and the ministers were going to the Nava Kerala Sadas in Ambalapuzha constituency by bus from Alappuzha, the two who raised slogans at the General Hospital Junction were detained by the policemen on duty there and shifted to the roadside. After that, the gunman and the security officer jumped from the Chief Minister's escort vehicle and beat them with lathis. Thomas suffered a head injury and Ajay Jewel's hand was broken. Both filed a complaint with the South Police, but no case was registered. When they sought a report on the complaint given to the District Police Chief, the South Police replied that they were beaten with a lathi in an unavoidable situation. Subsequently, a private complaint was filed in the court along with the video. The court heard the petition and directed the Alappuzha South Police to file a case.