Kerala weekly faces govt ire over investigative report

January 24, 2012 17:37

An article by Viju V Nair in Madhyamam Weekly has raised the hackles of the Kerala government and its political allies, writes the weekly's associate editor Yaseen Ashraf. Strange, he says, because the report was about the excesses of the police intelligence, something which can be '" and should be '" investigated and corrected. The investigative report claimed that 268 email accounts were ordered by the Kerala state intelligence to be tapped, out of which a huge majority belong to Muslims. None of these persons has any previous criminal history. So it is not clear why they are put under the cyber scanner.

'The issue of email snooping by the Kerala Special Branch CID has been distorted out of its true meaning by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and his government. The government is now playing the good old trick of "confuse and deceive'. This may be necessary to insulate the present regime against the well-founded charge of snooping and communal targeting, but it accentuates the feeling of insecurity among the people,' he says. Read the full piece here.

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