Two persons held for attack on lecturer
Two persons were arrested on Monday in connection with the attack on a college lecturer in Kerala, whose palm was chopped off for preparing an alleged inflammatory question paper even as the government said it would not allow such "Taliban type" attacks.
Jaffar of Kothamangalam and Ashraff of Mekalady were taken into custody, police said. Ashraff is reportedly an activist of the Popular Front, a fundamentalist Muslim outfit.
T.J. Joseph. 52, lecturer at a private Christian-run college, was attacked at Muvattupuzha in the district yesterday while returning from a church along with his family, including his sister and mother.
The lecturer was on bail since his arrest in April last for preparing the controversial question paper for B.Com II year internal exams, which triggered protests from some Muslim outfits, who claimed a reference to Prophet Mohammed in it hurt their religious sentiments.
Sources at the Specialist hospital here said a five-member team sutured back the lecturer's palm after a 16 hour long surgery. It would take more than a week to know if the surgery was successful, they said.
In the Kerala assembly, the home minister, Mr Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, said the government would not allow "Taliban-type" attacks and asked all political parties to unite and isolate forces responsible for the "barbaric" attack.
He said the government would verify if there were lapses on the part of police in providing protection to Joseph, who was suspended from the college after the question paper row.
Source: http://in.news.yahoo.com/20/20100705/1416/tnl-two-persons-held-for-attac...
and why do we forget the initiators???
No matter how much they disagreed with his actions, they had no right to take the law into their own hands. (pardon the pun)
There are lots of stuff happening all around the world. We dont have to post these topic here.
to blame to someone, like U.S.A for example like usual
why you want this discussed here, i am sorry