Social activist and author Rahul Easwar's car was on Thursday damaged and his path blocked by some students after he refused to lend support to a 'beef festival' being organised in various colleges in Kerala to protest against the Dadri lynching incident. On the basis of a complaint lodged by Easwar, police registered a case against 25 students of the Milad E Sherif Memorial College in Kayamkulam. Easwar had come to the college for delivering a lecture on 'cyber crime'. When he came out after the talk, some students blocked his path and wanted him to support the 'beef festival', college principal Shaik Ahammed said. [related-post] Some students closed the gate, raised slogans, and waved black flags at him, he said. "This is cultural fascism. This shows intolerance. They damaged my car stating I had not supported the beef festival," said Easwar, who is the grandson of Kandararu Maheshwararu, senior supreme priest of Sabarimala, the hill shrine of Lord Ayappa. "This is a wrong attitude and cannot be accepted," he said. Ahammed said he called Easwar and apologised for the incident.
