Oppn criticizes rights panel’s ‘enthusiasm’

Thiruvananthapuram: KPCC president Mullappally Ramachandran criticized the move by child

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commission to rush to the residence of Bineesh Kodiyeri, the son of CPM state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, where an enforcement directorate (ED) raid was in progress. “The commission that instantly reached the residence of Bineesh Kodiyeri did not visit Walayar and Palathayi, where children were molested,” he said.

Ramachandran alleged that the protest by Bineesh’s family members before his residence was a scripted drama. He said that while it should be probed if there was a human rights violation during ED search, the instant intervention by police and the commission in the case of Balakrishnan’s son was surprising. He claimed there was a move to glorify Bineesh.

BJP state president K Surendran said the police move to stop ED officials amounted to challenging the law. In his statement, Surendran said that trying to interfere in the functioning of central agencies, using child rights commission and the police, is nothing but anti-democratic and a violation of federal principles.

It is laughable that the commission that had not intervened when several instances of denial of justice happened in the state, he said referring to the case of two minor girls in Walayar, arrived instantly to block the crucial raid at the house of Bineesh.

Surendran said that even today (Thursday), there was an instance of a six-year-old child being molested in Kozhikode. In state, there are repeated instances of children being molested. The commission that had not responded in any of these instances, has now come to the rescue when the son of CPM state secretary ended up in a drug case, he added.

He claimed that the chief minister is misusing all government machinery to sabotage the probe by central agencies.


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