Death of law student assumes political overtones

Congress demands suspension of police officer; witness turns up backing allegations in the note

A day after a law student allegedly ended her life leaving behind a note, which blamed the Inspector of Aluva East police station along with her husband and in-laws, another woman has substantiated the allegations, claiming to be a witness.

In her note, Mofiya Parveen, 21, from Edayapuram in Aluva, accused Inspector C.L. Sudheer of behaving rudely to her in front of her husband and father when they were called to the station in connection with a domestic violence complaint she had filed a month ago. The note ends with a “final wish”, demanding action against her husband Suhail and his family and also against the Inspector. The officer was immediately removed from the charge of the station soon thereafter.

The woman from Eramalloor who turned up on Wednesday claimed that she was at the police station to lodge a petition and witnessed the incident described in the note. “The officer was indeed very rude with the girl. He was rude with me too while was well behaved with the rich,” she alleged. She, however, declined to disclose the nature of her personal petition on the grounds that the DySP had summoned her to discuss the matter.