Communist Party of India(Marxist) State Secretary P.Madhu and 11 others were taken into preventive custody when they agitated in support of displaced Dalits in Devarapalli village, near Parchur, on Tuesday.
A posse of police personnel surrounded the village from all sides and detained CPI(M) leaders and Dalit activists as they organised a meeting in the village defying prohibitory orders to express solidarity with 39 Dalit families who had been evicted from 22 acres of “Kunta Poramboke” land enjoyed by them for decades.
