A team of the Thrikkakara police arrested Shajan Skaria, editor and publisher of YouTube channel Marunadan Malayali, in a forgery case from Nilambur in Malappuram district on Saturday.
Mr. Skaria turned up before the Station House Officer (SHO) of the Nilambur police as per a High Court directive in a case registered on charges of spreading communal hatred online on a petition filed by a Nilambur municipality standing committee chairperson. The court had warned that his conditional anticipatory bail would be cancelled if he failed to appear before the Nilambur SHO for questioning.
He was taken into custody by the Thrikkakara police the moment he emerged out of the Nilambur police station on a case registered on July 13. He was then brought to the Thrikkakara police station.