Thrissur: Nine students of the Sree Krishna College at Guruvayur were arrested and later released on bail on Sunday after its campus magazine was found to have used "objectionable and unsavoury" language against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The arrested were identified as student editors Vipin Raj, P.K. Shihad (SFI Kunnumkulam area secretary), V.A. Aashiq, U.S. Sajil, Lenin Vishnu, Sahil Girish, Alvin K Benny and magazine advisory board members K.S. Sanoop (SFI district president) and N.B. Sajeeb.
The police are on the lookout for its chief editor and principal D. Jayaprasad, staff editor Prof Santosh and advisory board staff representative M.G. Subin Das. The action has been taken based on a complaint filed by the BJP media cell district convenor Rajan Tarayil.
According to the complaint the college magazine used “unsavoury or vulgar” language against the prime minister and many of the UDF ministers in a section garbed in the guise of a cross-word puzzle. Earlier, six persons, including the college principal and four students of a nearby government polytechnic were arrested by the Kunnamkulam police on a similar charge.
The magazine had allegedly defamed Modi by featuring his photograph under the section “Negative Faces” along with Adolf Hitler, George Bush, Osama bin Laden and a few others.
