thiruvananthapuram government and opposition locked horns in the assembly on monday over police action and sfis protest against asianet news channel over a controversial news item it telecasted while government claimed that police action was a legal procedure followed when criminal cases were registered opposition said that the government is trying to scare media houses that criticize itseeking a leave for adjournment motion mla pc vishnunath said that if the news channel airs a story on drug mafia why is sfi reacting violently and asked whether sfi was given the task of censoring new stories published or aired by the mediacm pinarayi vijayan said police action at the media houses kozhikode office was based on the complaint received by the police the news item it had aired was fake and the media cannot claim journalistic privilege for the same he said eight sfi activists were arrested by the police in connection with the protest march at the channels kochi officeclaiming that the government did nothing to curtail media freedom he said that silencing the media which are critical of the government is not cpms culture he said the congress during the emergency and bjp at present are engaged in armtwisting the media he added that a majority of the media in kerala are of the opinion that the kind of story created by the media house in question is not in the right taste all citizens are bound by law and the media is no exception to it he saidopposition leader vd satheesan said the government is unnecessarily blowing up a technical matter he said the story on drug mafias grip on school children wasnt fake and the visual aired was blurred and this would mean that a footnote saying that the visuals in the story was for representational purpose would have ended the mattersatheesan said the complaint filed by nilambur mla p v anvar was contradictory while on one side it says the news is fake it also says that it should be charged under pocso act he saiddrawing a parallel between vijayan and german dictator adolf hitler by quoting the words of german poet and playwright bertolt brecht satheesan said that as the poet said all autocrats are living in fear and insecurity the opposition then walked out