This story is from August 20, 2016

Police block Hindu Aikyavedi march to Sathyasarani in Manjeri

Demanding closure of Sathyasarani religious study centre in Manjeri, Hindu Aikyavedi took out a protest march to the centre on Saturday. Police blocked the march when it started from bus stand premises around 10am, preventing it proceeding to the centre in Cherani near Manjeri town.
Police block Hindu Aikyavedi march to Sathyasarani in Manjeri
Demanding closure of Sathyasarani religious study centre in Manjeri, Hindu Aikyavedi took out a protest march to the centre on Saturday. Police blocked the march when it started from bus stand premises around 10am, preventing it proceeding to the centre in Cherani near Manjeri town.
MALAPPURAM: Demanding closure of Sathyasarani religious study centre in Manjeri, Hindu Aikyavedi took out a protest march to the centre on Saturday. Police blocked the march when it started from bus stand premises around 10am, preventing it from proceeding to the centre in Cherani near Manjeri town.
The protest march was organised jointly by different Sangh Parivar organisations alleging that the study centre has a role in forceful religious conversion and recruitment to international terror organisations.
The march was inaugurated by state president of BJP Kummanam Rajasekharan.
As the Popular Front of India (PFI), under which the study centre is functioning, had announced earlier that it will block the protest march of Hindu Aikyavedi, police had stepped up security in Manjeri and hundreds of police personnel were deployed in various parts of town. Though PFI activists also staged a protest dharna against the march of Aikyavedi, the timely intervention of police managed to avoid the clash between two groups of protesters.
Inaugurating the march, Kummanam Rajaseksharan demanded the state government to take immediate action to close down the illegal religious study centres and conversion centres which are promoting extreme religious ideologies. Senior leaders of RSS and VHP also took part in the protest programme.
On August 17, considering a petition of a Kottayam native that his 23-year-old daughter Akhila aka Hadiya is under custody of study centre, the Kerala High Court had directed the state police chief to block the girl from going abroad to join any terror organisation and produce her before court on or before August 22. Though the Malappuram police raided the centre, the team had failed to find the girl. The search for the BHMS student studying in Salem in Tamil Nadu is still on. A similar complaint was filed recently also by a woman in Thiruvananthapuram that her daughter is under illegal custody of Sathyasarani.
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