A signboard reading 'Gaza Street' has been put up at the beginning of the road, near the Juma Masjid in Thuruthi here, renamed apparently after the tiny Palestinian self-governing territory.
Police and intelligence departments are keenly looking into all aspects including possible radical influence behind the naming, as a majority among the 21 Keralite youths, who went missing and suspected to have joined terror outfit ISIS recently, hailed from Kasaragod.
Sameera Abdul Razak, Thuruthi Municipality ward Councillor and IUML member, said she had attended the inauguration ceremony of the road but was unaware about other details.
"I was invited to the road inauguration and I attended the function. I do not know who renamed it as Gaza Street. It was earlier known as T S Colony," she told PTI.
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Kasaragod district panchayat president AGC Basheer had inaugurated the road last month.
He also said he did not know other details behind the naming of the road.
Local BJP leaders here alleged that there were conscious attempts being made to change the names of different streets and roads in Kasaragod.