Overview
- The Students' Federation of India won 35 of 37 seats in the Kerala University Union elections, and its victory procession spilled out of the campus into nearby streets.
- Violent confrontations broke out during the celebrations and produced competing accounts: police say SFI activists pelted stones and sticks first, while SFI leaders say Kerala Students Union workers attacked the march.
- Police deployed water cannon, tear gas and a lathi charge to clear the area, and reported multiple officer injuries including an SHO whose left arm was fractured near the elbow.
- Authorities recorded damage to a police vehicle estimated at about Rs 30,000 and filed an FIR that lists 10 identifiable SFI workers and 40 others on charges including obstruction and use of stones or wood as weapons.
- The clash has quickly become politicized, with Rajya Sabha MP A A Rahim accusing KSU of a planned attack and SFI alleging selective police action, and the FIR may trigger further investigations, detentions and wider protests.