AMN / New Delhi
Members cutting across party lines in Lok Sabha today condemned the rape and murder of a poor Dalit law student in Kerala. raising the issue nominated member Richard Hay said it looked as if Kerala was losing its glory.
“Does it (Kerala) deserve the description ‘God’s own country’? It has become a devil’s country,” Hay lamented while raising the issue.
He and other members raised the issue of Jisha, 27, who was murdered on April 28 in Perumbavoor in Ernakulam. Her body was found badly mutilated.
The brutality has led to comparisons with the 2012 gang-rape in Delhi that shook the nation.
BJP’s Meenakshi Lekhi said the young woman’s death “was a sad reminder of the Nirbhaya case”. She wanted to know why no arrest had been been made.
Days after this incident, another young student was allegedly gang-raped and dumped at Varkala near Thiruvananthapuram, she said.
Admitting that the incident in Kerala was serious, Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu said “such incidents should not be made into a political issue”.
In the Rajya Sabha too, members raised the issue and Social Justice Minister Thawar Chand Gehlot said he will visit Kerala soon.
Naidu said he will share the concern of the Lok Sabha members with Home Minister Rajnath Singh and request him to seek a report on the matter.
Meanwhile the probe to trace the killer of a young poor woman who was brutally murdered in Ernakulam district apparently after being raped is on the right track, the Police said on Wednesday.
Jisha, 27, was found murdered on April 28 at her home near a canal here by her labourer mother. Her body was found badly mutilated. There were injuries on her private parts, according to police.
“We are unable to give details of what we are doing and what’s happening on the probe, but can say that it’s going on the right track,” Additional Director General of Police K. Padmakumar told media.
Widespread protest were seen in Kerala over the brutal rape and murder of a Dalit law student. The incident occurred on April 28 at her residence near Perumbavoor in Ernakulam District.
The activists of opposition youth wing blocked the entry of State Home Minister who proceeded to meet the mother of the student.
Chief Minister Oommen Channdy and Leader of Opposition VS Achuthanandan visited Perumbavoor this morning and met the victim’s mother, who is under treatment at a hospital.