4 min learnUp to date: Aug 9, 2026 10:49 PM IST
RSS chief and right-wing political commentator T G Mohandas, who stated that “rapes and murders will occur” in the course of the Jantar Mantar protest, was taken into custody on Sunday. The motion associated to the remarks he made in a YouTube video concerning the NEET paper leaks protest in Delhi, police instructed information company PTI.
The case was registered following a criticism alleging that movies uploaded on Mohandas’ YouTube channel, ‘Pathrika‘, had been meant to disturb public peace and create worry and unrest among the many public.
The BJP termed the police motion “discriminatory” and accused the Kerala authorities of utilizing this incident to divert consideration from alleged lapses in flood aid operations and protests in coastal areas.
A group from the Thiruvananthapuram Cyber Police Station, which is probing the case, reached Mohandas’ residence at Koovappadam close to Mattancherry on Sunday night, accompanied by officers from the native police station.
#WATCH | Kochi, Keralam: RSS Ideologue TG Mohandas has been taken into police custody from his residence in Mattancherry, Kochi, by a group from the Thiruvananthapuram Metropolis Cyber Crime Police.
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The police group collected details about his YouTube account and digital units allegedly used to create and add the video, officers stated.
Police sources stated Mohandas could be questioned intimately as a part of the investigation. Round 7.45 pm, Mohandas was introduced out of his residence and brought to a hospital for a medical examination, PTI stated.
After present process a medical examination at a authorities hospital, Mohandas was taken to Thiruvananthapuram.
What TG Mohandas stated
A video confirmed Mohandas purportedly saying that if he was tasked with dealing with the protest, he would have imposed a curfew within the Jantar Mantar space. “The gang could be requested to disperse. The announcement could be made thrice by means of public deal with programs. Then, there could be firing. Folks will run in a chaotic and hurried method. Some folks will die, others will get injured. Inside 4 hours, the state of affairs shall be underneath management. The our bodies shall be moved to hospital,” he purportedly stated.
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In one other video, Mohandas is allegedly heard saying, “Police must be withdrawn from the world, and it must be left to the protesters. Rapes and murders will occur. There won’t be complaints about rape, as a result of they like rape.”
Police alleged that the movies had been uploaded and circulated on July 24 and 25 with the intention of disturbing public tranquillity and creating unrest by spreading worry amongst those that participated within the protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar.
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The LDF had initially raised questions over the delay in registering a case in opposition to Mohandas.
After the case was registered final month, questions had been raised over the delay in taking him into custody.
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House Minister Ramesh Chennithala had maintained that the police would resolve whether or not to arrest Mohandas after conducting the probe.
Earlier within the day, when reporters requested AICC common secretary Okay C Venugopal concerning the delay, he stated the registration of an FIR must be adopted by an investigation and applicable motion.
“Submitting an FIR means an investigation has to happen. These RSS folks assume that they rule this complete nation and the entire world, and that they will say something,” he stated.
Venugopal stated he believed the Kerala Police was able to taking motion in opposition to these accountable. “I firmly imagine that the Kerala Police is able to controlling such folks now,” he stated.
Police motion ‘extremely condemnable’: BJP
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BJP state common secretary S Suresh, in a press release, stated it was “extremely condemnable” that police took Mohandas into custody on a vacation.
He alleged that the detention was geared toward diverting consideration from the federal government’s alleged failures in flood aid operations and protests by folks in coastal areas.
“The remarks made by Mohandas should not welcome, however a number of individuals who have allegedly threatened to shoot Prime Minister Narendra Modi are shifting freely with out dealing with authorized motion underneath the safety of the UDF authorities in Kerala,” Suresh alleged.
He claimed that regardless of a number of complaints being lodged with the police in opposition to such individuals, House Minister Ramesh Chennithala was defending those that had allegedly threatened the PM.
