Govt is not protecting Basheer: CM

Wednesday, June 13, 2012: Chief Minister Oommen Chandy today said that the government is not trying to protect Basheer as a ruling MLA.
He said that it is is not the approach of the government to arrest a person if his name is mentioned in the FIR.
Talking to newspersons, he said that if a person has to be arrested after his name is mentioned in the FIR, then the first person to be arrested is K K Jayachandran MLA in the Ancheri Baby murder case.
‘Opposition is trying to create a controversy over the speeches of Basheer’, he said.