CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat with student Vittala Malekudiya, who is in judicial custody for allegedly supporting Naxalites in Mangalore district jail, Karnataka on Sunday, May 20, 2012. Vittal Malekudiya a post graduate student of Mangalore University who is in judicial custody for his alleged links with naxalites and his father Lingappa who have been housed in the Mangalore district jail since two months. Photo by RK Bhat/Indian Photo Agency