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SHRC, SWC members meet Vineeta

Staff Reporter

KOZHIKODE: The State Human Rights Commission member, S.Varghese, and the Women's Commission chairperson, M. Kamalam and member, P. Kulsu, on Tuesday visited Vineeta R. Kottayi, who is under treatment at the Kozhikode Medical College Hospital after she was attacked on Saturday. (Vineeta, who has been subjected to more than a decade of ostracism by pro-CPI(M) KSKTU, was attacked allegedly by CPI(M) men at her residence on Saturday. According to Vineeta, a widow, the attackers doused kerosene on her body and tried to set her ablaze, but she managed to escape.)

Mr.Varghese, later talking to mediapersons said that the Commission viewed the incident seriously. The incident should not happen to anyone else in the State in future, he said. The Commission has asked the Kozhikode Superintendent of Police (Rural) to provide police protection to Vineeta as she herself had told that she was afraid to go back to her house in Pathiripatta near Kuttiyadi, he said. Mr.Varghese said Ms.Vineeta had complained that the Kuttiyadi Mrs. Kamalam told a press conference here that the Commission will request the Government to take serious action against those involved in the accident. A report will be forwarded to the Government in this regard. Making it clear that the Commission does not want to assign any political colour to the incident, Mrs.Kamalam said that the Commission views it as an attack on a poor widow and an infringement on her right to utilise her property for her own livelihood.

``Now what she asks for is security. The Commission will talk to the DGP and SP (Rural) in this regard.'' Mrs. Kamalam clarified that the Commission had received a complaint from Vineeta with regard to the blockade by the pro-CPI(M) trade union, KSKTU. ``Then the Commission had called both the parties concerned and advised them. The issue had reached a settlement then.'' Mrs. Kamalam also said that Vineeta had complained of the action of local police who did not seal off her house after the incident, which Vineeta suspects could have helped the attackers to destroy all evidences.

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