{"id":21041,"date":"2018-10-18T20:38:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T15:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=21041"},"modified":"2019-03-15T18:10:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T12:40:27","slug":"kerala-protests-woman-injured-due-to-stone-pelting-social-media-falsely-claims-police-brutality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/kerala-protests-woman-injured-due-to-stone-pelting-social-media-falsely-claims-police-brutality\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabrimala: BJP&#8217;s K Surendran falsely claims woman injured due to Kerala police brutality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Kerala CM Mr. @vijayanpinarayi, just remember you are an elected CM. You have the responsibility to take everyone into account and act accordingly. In Sabarimala issue, you are ignoring the majority feelings, brutally attacking our mothers using your power @cpimspeak\u00a0@CMOKerala.&#8221;<\/em> This message is by K. Surendran, General Secretary of Kerala BJP, who has targeted Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan over the manner in which the state police has handled the protests over the Sabarimala issue. Along with the message, Surendran has tweeted a photograph of a woman lying injured on the ground.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kerala CM Mr. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vijayanpinarayi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@vijayanpinarayi<\/a>, just remember you are an elected CM. You have the responsibility to take everyone into account and act accordingly. In Sabarimala issue, you are ignoring the majority feelings, brutally attacking our mothers using your power <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cpimspeak?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@cpimspeak<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CMOKerala?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CMOKerala<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Srho66krj2\">pic.twitter.com\/Srho66krj2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 K Surendran (@surendranbjp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/surendranbjp\/status\/1052605743386353665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Surendran&#8217;s tweet of October 17 has been retweeted over 150 times. The photograph has been shared widely with the allegation that the Kerala police has resorted to heavy use of force, not even sparing women.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Pic1 -Resmi Nair, An Atheist &amp; Leading Left voice who got arrested for running <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SexRacket?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SexRacket<\/a> is being lined up by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CPIMKerala?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CPIMKerala<\/a> to enter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Sabarimala?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Sabarimala<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pic2 -An unknown Mother, a devotee of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ayyappa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ayyappa<\/a>, brutally beaten by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KeralaPolice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KeralaPolice<\/a> while conducting a peaceful protest<\/p>\n<p>End of Communism? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LUnorVUgVt\">pic.twitter.com\/LUnorVUgVt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u0d28\u0d1a\u0d3f\u0d15\u0d47\u0d24\u0d38\u0d4d (@nach1keta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nach1keta\/status\/1052791772001263616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><strong>What is the truth?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The woman shown in the picture lying injured was NOT attacked by Kerala police. This becomes obvious once the footage of the incident is seen.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Woman injured during Sabrimala protest\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/295810973?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As can be seen in the video, the woman wearing a red blouse and cream-coloured saree appears to be hit by a stone on her head, following which she collapses on the ground. No policeman can be seen anywhere close to the woman when she fell to the ground. The sequence of events is shown below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21042\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181018_194546.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181018_194546.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181018_194546-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181018_194546-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181018_194546-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181018_194546-696x696.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/IMG_20181018_194546-420x420.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manoramanews.com\/news\/kerala\/2018\/10\/18\/sabarimala-protesters-attacked-lady-duty-officer-raised-allegations-against-police-k-surendran.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Manorama News<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/m.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=2792311294127728&amp;id=212212688804281\"><em>Asianet News<\/em><\/a> have reported that the woman was injured due to stone-pelting and not due to heavy-handedness by the police as alleged by K.Surendran.<\/p>\n<p>Kerala has often been at the centre of misinformation\/disinformation by vested interests seeking political gain in the state. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zoo_bear\/status\/1052870928265297921?s=19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In another instance<\/a>, an old, unrelated photograph was used on social media to project &#8216;brutality on Hindus&#8217; by Kerala police in the wake of the Sabarimala protests which have rocked the state. Some days back it was the same story- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-unrelated-images-shared-to-claim-kerala-police-brutally-assaulted-sabarimala-protesters\/\">old images used<\/a> to mislead social media users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Kerala CM Mr. @vijayanpinarayi, just remember you are an elected CM. You have the responsibility to take everyone into account and act accordingly. In Sabarimala issue, you are ignoring the majority feelings, brutally attacking our mothers using your power @cpimspeak\u00a0@CMOKerala.&#8221; This message is by K. Surendran, General Secretary of Kerala BJP, who has targeted Kerala [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":21045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[132],"class_list":["post-21041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-videos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/10\/Untitled-design-15.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21041"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30741,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21041\/revisions\/30741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21041"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=21041"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=21041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}