Ramaswami: THE Communalism Combat and SAHMAT condemn the illegal and arbitrary arrests of two young women in Palghar, Maharashtra, for their Facebook message disapproving the coercive shutdown of the city of Mumbai and other parts of Maharashtra following the death of the Shiv Sena chief Shri Bal Thackeray. The Thane rural police have behaved arbitrarily and against the law, for which the policemen involved must be prosecuted. Shiv Sena goons also vandalised a clinic being run by an uncle of one of the girls. It is condemnable that under the Congress-NCP government it was not the vandals who destroyed the medical equipment and threatened the patients at Palghar who were promptly acted against but two young girls who have every right to express their opinion. Today’s media reports state that nine persons have been arrested for the attack on the medical clinic but no details have been made available, including the names of the criminals.