A tense atmosphere prevailed outside the Bishop House of the Angamaly-Ernakulam archdiocese here, after the police on Saturday evacuated from there several priests who were on an indefinite fast demanding withdrawal of certain documents issued by an Apostolic Administrator.
Believers and priests strongly criticise the police action.
They claimed before TV channels that the protesting priests were forcibly evacuated by the police from the Bishop House in the wee hours of Saturday.
Visuals on TV channels also show that some of the protesting priests were injured in the police action.
Several believers and priests, thereafter, began arriving in numbers at the St Mary's Basilica where the protesting priests were relocated and police were also seen in large numbers.
The believers also got into a heated argument with police outside the Angamaly-Ernakulam archdiocese headquarters.
They also accused Ernakulam ACP C Jayakumar of saying that the government was against the Angamaly-Ernakula