Mangalore : CPI(M) District committee member staged a protest in front of the DC office on April 22 Tuesday, condemning the incident of Shootout of Jokatte youth Kabir by the Anti-Naxal Force near Shringeri check post.

Addressing the protestors, KR Sriyan, State CPI(M) Secretariat Board Member said that the government must take strict against the ANF personnel involved in shootout of Kabir and hence urged to handover the case to the CBI.

He also demanded the government to grant the compensation of Rs 30 lakh to Kabeer family, since he was innocent and only illegal cattle transportation was an offence and not cattle transportation by itself.

Vasanth Achari, CPI(M) State Committee Member said that Congress was not ensuring justice to the Muslim community who always supported the secular party.

CPI(M) leaders J Balakrishna Shetty, Sunil Kumar Bajal, Muneer Katipalla, BK Imtiyaz, Corporator Dayanand Shetty, former corporator Jayanthi Shetty and others participated in the protest.