Overview
- UDF leaders demanded that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan relinquish the Home portfolio and sought the dismissal of officers accused in recent custodial torture cases.
- After a charged debate, the Opposition staged a walkout and began an indefinite protest on the Assembly premises led by MLAs T. J. Saneesh Kumar and A. K. M. Ashraf.
- Pinarayi Vijayan rejected allegations of shielding errant police and said 144 officers have been dismissed for misconduct since 2016, citing a decline in State Police Complaints Authority cases.
- In the 2023 Kunnamkulam case involving Youth Congress leader V. S. Sujith, SI Nuhman and three senior civil police officers were suspended on September 6 following a JFCM court order, after earlier transfers and blocked increments.
- LDF leaders called allegations of widespread brutality politically motivated, while the Opposition asserted a pattern of cover-ups and interference in policing.