About 20-odd 'Kiss of Love' activists, first converged at the mofussil bus-stand here by about 3 PM where about 100 spectators and workers of 'Hanuman sena', had gathered.
When the activists started kissing, the spectators rushed towards them. Police tried to chase them away and took into custody the protesters and workers of the 'Hanuman Sena'.
Kozhikode City Police commissioner, A V George confirmed that some activists of the 'Kiss of Love' and 'Hanuman Sena' have been taken into custody.
"They were taken into custody as a precautionary measure and will be let off without registering any case,", he later told reporters.
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Unlike in Kochi, the organisers of the 'Kiss of Love' protest had decided to hold the agitation in different streets in Kozhikode, naming the protest as 'Kiss in the Street'.
At the famed Sweat Meat street called 'Mithai Theruva', famous for 'Kozhikode Halwas', activists allegedly belonging to Shiv Sena, attacked documentary film maker Didi Damodaran and her husband after they kissed each other, expressing solidarity with the 'Kiss of Love' protest.
"A middle-aged couple were standing there holding hands and were taken into custody. I was explaining this to a TV channel when I was also taken into custody," Cherian said.
Describing the police action as 'shameful', he said the 'Kiss of Love' activists should have been given space to protest. They were arrested immediately after they reached the bus-stand and this was against democratic procedures, he said.
"These people were only exercising their right and they were forcibly taken into custody by police," he told a television channel.