Will take legal action against two CPI-M leaders: Kerala woman

A local court before whom the two sisters were presented on Friday, sent them and Akhila’s 18-month-old infant to Kannur jail. A case should be filed against those who forced one of the sisters to commit suicide.

Dalit women Akhila and Anjana, daughters of Congress local leader N Rajan, had been sent to jail for allegedly attacking CPM workers after trespassing into the CPM office. The government should also look into facts that led court to deny justice to the sisters.

One of the two Dalit women held on charge of trespassing into the CPI-M office in Thalaserry was late Saturday night hospitalised after an alleged suicide attempt.

In the wake of the political controversy triggered off by the suicide attempt by one of the two dalit women, the Thalassery MLA AN Shamseer has said insulting anyone is not part of his culture.

The state Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes offered free legal aid for the siblings to fight the case.

Director of the panel Girija P., after recording Anjana’s statement, said that the women’s family was humiliated.

Meanwhile, the BJP raised the issue at the national level by pressing the National Women’s Commission and the SC-ST Commission to investigate it.

Intervening in the matter, the National Commission for Scheduled Castes stated that it would carry out an investigation into the matter, while the state SC/ST Commission registered a case in this regard. Both commissions are said to be sending their members to Thalassery shortly. She also collected details from investigators probing the case. The apparent indifference of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan – who is also the Home Minister – to police action has made the situation more messy.

Anjana’s relatives said that she was already traumatised after a day in jail and derogatory comments about her on TV by a woman DYFI functionary and a flurry of abusive posts by CPM sympathisers on Facebook forced her to resort to the extreme step.