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20 complaints taken up at police adalat

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Police `inaction': order to nab culprits in 15 days

KASARAGOD: Twenty complaints were taken up at the first police adalat held in the presence of the Director General of Police (DGP), Raman Srivastava, here on Saturday.

M. Gopalan and Pankajam of Paduvadukka, parents of Balakrishanan who was killed in 2001, were among those who turned up to register their complaints to the DGP. The prosecution case was that Balakrishnan, who married a Muslim woman, was killed by a group of men near Chemmanad four years ago.

They alleged `slow' progress of the case and police apathy. The case, being probed by the Crime Branch, was raised before the Justice K.T. Thomas Commission and the Assembly Committee during its sitting in the district few months ago.

A petition to grant maintenance by Jameela of Chattamchal was another grievance brought before the DGP. Jameela, mother of four children, pleaded that her husband, Abdul Kareem, be punished. She said she had married ten times. An appeal to crack down on the `goonda' gangs in the town was raised by the Kasaragod People Forum and the Motor Thozhilali Union.

There have been instances of daylight robbery and atrocities in the town, it was pointed out in the memoranda submitted separately by the two organisations.

The complaint of police inaction in a case where a group of men disrupted a musical programme organised by Kasaragod Journalists Housing Society on April 24 was taken up by the DGP. He directed the police to nab the culprits in 15 days.

Memorandum

A memorandum to conduct a high-level inquiry into the death of A.V. Anil of Chanthera, who according to police had committed suicide, was another case brought up before the adalat.

Anil, partner of a driving school in Neeleswaram, was found dead on a railway track on November 4, 2003.

His father pleaded for a probe into the death.

A plea for granting maintenance by Sulochana P, daughter of Narayanan Nair of Erichery in Kottur, was yet another complaint received by the DGP.

The complaint said that her husband, A.M. Anilkumar, had ditched her after five years of marriage in 1997. A verdict of the Judicial First Class Magistrate to pay maintenance grant had not been executed till date, the complaint added.

Ushakumari, a teacher in Thalangara school, alleged that her husband, a police officer, had married again without divorcing her.

A complaint was made by Abitha of Uppala for getting back dowry and ornaments allegedly taken away by her husband, Muhammed Kunju.

According to the complainant, her husband abandoned her after taking away Rs. 2 lakhs given as dowry and 150 sovereigns.

She also complained of torture by her husband who had left her three years ago.

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