VALAKOM TEACHER
It said that close to two weeks after the incident, the police have failed to determine what precisely happened. 'We have no other go but express our disappointment with the manner in which the inquiry is being conducted,' Prasad said. Kumar was found severely injured near Kottarakara, some 10 km from here, around 10.45 p.m. Sept 27. Highway police first took him to a local hospital but he was later moved to the Medical College Hospital here as his condition was serious.
Charging the police with inaction, Prasad regretted the campaign to 'malign' the injured and his family. 'It is rather strange that the statements of the victim are being leaked to the media,' said Prasad. 'Our next step is to seek legal redress.'The first theory circulated was that Kumar's rectum was pierced with an iron rod, his genitals crushed and his hips smashed.However, a medical board report concluded Friday that Kumar's injuries might have been caused due to a vehicle accident and that his rectum was not pierced by a rod, nor were his genitals crushed.
'We are all deeply hurt by what is being circulated in the media and we request the police to see that such malicious campaign be stopped,' says Geetha's complaint. Soon after the episode, the first salvo was fired by Leader of Opposition V.S. Achuthanandan of te Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), who alleged that the attack was masterminded by jailed ruling United Democratic Front leader and former minister R. Balakrishna Pillai and his minister-son K.B. Ganesh Kumar. One reason why Achuthanandan levelled these charges is that the school where Kumar and Geetha work belongs to Pillai and the teacher couple and Pillai are having a long running feud, souces said.
TV channels had a field day. A series of stories followed and the state assembly was rocked, with the opposition alleging that Pillai was running the government from jail, using a mobile phone and that Pillai even talked to Chief Minister Oommen Chandy.
But Chandy gave evidence that the call to his private secretary was made at a time when he was on tour and challenged the opposition to prove that he spoke to Pillai. Chandy soon launched an inquiry and after it was found that Pillai used a mobile phone in jail, his term in jail was extended by four days
Police have obtained a lead in the Valakam teacher attack case with a person who was believed to have seen the victim lying on the roadside with serious injuries turning up before the investigators today. The man, whose identity is kept undisclosed, was being questioned by a police team probing the case, police said.
The man while travelling on a motorcycle through the area, found the teacher lying on the roadside on the night of the attack on September 27. He was said to have informed people around a tea stall at some distance about it. He appeared before the police even as police had prepared a sketch of him based on details gathered from the local people for release to the media. Police had also given a call asking him to appear on his own before the investigators. Krishnakumar, a teacher in a Higher Secondary school owned by former minister and Kerala Congress (B) leader R Balakrishna Pillai, now serving one-year imprisonment in a corruption case, was found with serious injuries at Valakam in Kollam District.
The incident assumed political undertones with the victim's wife and relatives claiming that he had not been on good terms with the school management. The Opposition LDF seized on the issue to attack the UDF Government and Pillai, whose party is a partner in the ruling coalition. The incident also ignited a raging row over use of mobile phone by Pillai, who is under treatment in a hospital. The Opposition had accused the Government of extending "undue facilities" to Pillai, sentenced to imprisonment by the Supreme Court in February last.
Prof. John Kurakar
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its 10 km not 30 km
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