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Caste row: Out of jail, Kerala girl attempts suicide

Kannur district panchayat vice-president P.P. Divya stood by her comments on a channel on Saturday night.

KANNUR: The Dalit woman who was bailed out on Saturday from a women’s prison in Kannur along with her sister, attempted to commit suicide late on Saturday night. She is currently in the intensive care unit of Indira Gandhi Cooperative hospital, Thalassery. Anjuna, 25, daughter of INTUC leader N. Rajan, Kunuyil House, Kutti-makkool, tried to end her life, allegedly upset over the remarks made by a woman leader from the DYFI and negative comments on social media. She was earlier remanded along with her elder sister Akhila Vikas, 30, in prison.

Kannur District police chief Sanjay Kumar Gurudin said that a case will be registered for abetting suicide, if someone from the family files a complaint. Along with the complaint, a statement from Ms Anjuna is also to be taken. However, she is currently not in a position to talk. He submitted the report on the issue to the DGP on Sunday. Mr Gurudin told this newspaper that the report was purely on the issue and not did not focus on the case.

Anjuna’s younger sister Akhisha said that Anjuna was very upset with a debate on a TV channel and social media comments portraying them as ‘quotation gangs’. “She is sensitive unlike us and was deeply upset when her friends called up after seeing the comments. I found her unconscious and immediately took her to the hospital,” said Akhisha

However, Kannur district panchayat vice-president P.P. Divya stood by her comments on a channel on Saturday night. She had referred to the sisters as ‘public nuisance’ and members of a ‘quotation gang’. “They were not my views, but the sentiments of the locals. Even during the UDF rule, cases were registered against them. There were incidents where they attacked the neighbours. That time, no cases were registered since they were also relatives,” said Ms Divya.

Former MP Mullappally Ramachandran, Congress leader K. Sudhakaran, DCC president K. Surendran, former minister A.P. Anil Kumar and Mahila Congress state president Bindu Krishna visited Anjuna at the hospital. The sisters were jailed for attacking DYFI Thiruvangad East village Committee joint secretary Shijil, after entering the party office. However, they said that Shijil and others called them caste names and they just questioned them.

( Source : Deccan Chronicle. )
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