Offices of the Malayalam news channel Asianet were searched by the Kerala police on Sunday. This comes after a group of Students' Federation of India (SFI) activists allegedly trespassed into the office of Asianet News in Kochi on Friday and intimidated the staff over a report about the sexual assault of a girl, according to Kerala Police, said a NDTV report.
Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar shared a video of the police action on Twitter and slammed the Pinarayi Vijayan government.
A case was later registered against 30 SFI activists, the students' wing of the ruling CPI(M) in Kerala, on the basis of a complaint lodged by the channel.