Dalit woman attempts suicide: Case against CPM Kerala legislator
FollowA Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) legislator and a woman leader of the party were booked on charges of abetting suicide of a Dalit woman of Thalassery in Kannur.
Police filed cases against Thalassery MLA A N Shamseer and P P Divya, leader of the youth wing of the CPM, in a series of cases and counter cases in connection with the raging controversy over the incident of Dalit sisters 'attacking' the office of the party alleging caste abuse by CPM workers.
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Anjana, the younger one of the sisters who were remanded and imprisoned in a case filed by the CPM alleging trespassing and assaulting their workers, had tried to commit suicide. She had revealed that she took the extreme step after the CPM leaders cast aspersions on her through television channels. The police also registered a case against Anjana for attempted suicide.
Meanwhile, National Commission for Scheduled Castes director P Girija, visited Anjana and said that the women and their family complained of insult. Kerala State Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes also recorded the statement of the sisters.
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Anjana and Akhila, daughters of Congress leader N Rajan, had been arrested on Friday following a complaint that they trespassed into CPM office and assaulted a party worker. Though they were released on bail next day, the political and legal row whipped up by both the Congress and the CPM is raging still.
