• Dalit women's jailing: I don't know, ask cops, says CM

    From Dr. Jai Maharaj@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 25 00:41:34 2016
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    DALIT WOMEN'S JAILING: I DON'T KNOW, ASK COPS, SAYS CM

    By V. R. Jayaraj
    The Pioneer
    http://www.dailypioneer.com
    Monday, June 20, 2016

    Kochi - The CPI(M)-led LDF had come to power in Kerala
    last month with a pledge to end atrocities against women,
    especially from the poor and Dalit sections, but when
    asked on Sunday about the issue concerning the jailing of
    two Dalit women the other day on allegedly fabricated
    charges in his home district Kannur, Marxist Chief
    Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's reply was, "Ask the police. I
    have nothing to say about that."

    When the issue was brought to his attention by mediamen
    in Delhi on Saturday, 24 hours after the two Dalit women
    aged 30 and 25, daughters of a Congress leader, along
    with an 18-month-old child of one of them, the response
    of the Chief Minister, who is also holding the Home
    portfolio, was even stranger. "It hasn't come to my
    notice."

    "What does it mean if the Chief Minister handling Home
    Affairs says he should not be asked about such vital
    issues and that police alone have answers?" asked
    Opposition Leader Ramesh Chennithala of the Congress. "If
    every explanation is to come from the police, why should
    there be a Minister in-charge of the police? Is Kerala
    under police Raj?" he asked.

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    http://www.dailypioneer.com/nation/dalit-womens-jailing-i-dont-know-ask-cops-says-cm.html

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