Thiruvananthapuram: With two of its members being arrested on charge of moral policing, an embarrassed CPI(M) today apologised to the victims, a woman journalist and her husband, saying it firmly believed "personal freedom" is very precious and cannot accept such behaviour by cadres.

Police earlier this week arrested Vinod Kumar (34), a local functionary of the CPI(M) and Rajendran (48), another worker, on a complaint of the woman. She and her husband were allegedly harassed by the duo when she had gone to her husband's firm here to help him with his work on Sunday last.