Malappuram: Police registered a case against a Muslim League worker Rafi Puthiyakadavu for threatening Panakkad Mueen Ali Shihab Thangal, son of late Panakkad Hyder Ali Shihab Thangal.
Mueen Ali is known as a rebel in the Panakkad family who never hesitates to criticise party leaders like P K Kunhalikutty and show his affiliation to the Samastha over the party.  

Thangal received a voice message in which he was threatened that he would become wheelchair-bound man if he continued to criticise the Muslim League and community leaders.  

“Thangal, if you choose to continue to challenge the party and community leadership, you will end up on a wheelchair. You receive respect from everyone as you belong to the Thangal family. If you continue to challenge the leadership, this should be considered as a threat to life,” Rafi Puthiyakadavu warned Mueen Ali Thangal through a voice message.
Meanwhile, talking to Manorama News, Rafi said that Mueen Ali's actions had provoked him to make the threats.

Mueen Ali is considered more close to the Samantha leadership rather than the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML). At a press meeting in August 2021 at Kozhikode, Mueen Ali expressed his opposition over the Directorate of Enforcement's (ED) decision to interrogate his father the late Panakkad Hyder Ali Shihab Thangal. He also accused Kunhalikutty of framing his father in the case. 

The ED has intervened in a case of depositing Rs 10 crore in the account of Chandrika Daily, the IUML mouthpiece during demonetisation when Hyder Ali Thangal was the Editor. Mueen Ali also alleged that the ineffiencieny of finance manager Abdul Sameer, who was appointed by Kunhalikutty, was the reason behind the issues int he daily. He also claims the alleged fraud in buying land for the newspaper.  

Rafi had interrupted this press meeting and termed Mueen Ali a 'useless'. Rafi is one of the accused in the Indiavision attack case in 2004 following telecast of the details of the ice-cream parlour case.  

Meanwhile, the National Youth League condemned the threats against Mueen Ali Thangal.  The organisation's General Secretary Faizal Babu demanded stringent action against the person concerned.