‘Jungle Raj’, the term generally attributed to complete failure of Law & Order was associated with the misgovernance in UP and Bihar. Now Kerala under the LDF Government has become the crime capital of the nation. The recent incident of molestation of a popular South Indian actress has just brought the grave situation to the forefront
A Narayanan from Kochi
“It’s a blessing that we have a retired Supreme Court Chief Justice as the Governor, otherwise the state would have to bear 1850 criminals added to its current mess”. The words came from none other than a left aligned film maker from Kerala, Joy Mathew, regarding the refusal by Governor P Sathasivam to sign on a recommendation to free 1850 inmates from various central jails of the state.
In nine months of the Left Democratic Front’s rule, the state of Kerala has seen an abduction and molestation of one of the most popular actress of Malayalam film industry, attempt to strip off a Dalit woman by a CPM worker in the capital city, a woman journalist was manhandled and molested in a tourist spot and brutal attack on two girl students at the SFI bastion, the University college at Thiruvananthapuram. Inspite of the 11 political murders of RSS workers by the CPM goons, every day the situation in Kerala is worsening and the state secretary of CPM Kodiyeri Balakrishnan says that these are isolated incidents.
The decision to free 1850 prisoners The LDF Govt decided to free 1850 criminals who are the convicts of rape, loot, multiple murders, as well as tech crimes. The govt neither consulted with the Cabinet nor with the Law Secretary in this matter and sent the high-level committee recommendation to the Raj Bhavan. P Sathasivam, who has also served as the Chief Justice of India, intervened in the matter citing the 2015 Supreme Court judgement and asked the govt to reconsider the recommendation. Even the worst criminals of the notorious murder of T P Chandrasekharan, a dissent leader of CPM Kodi Suni were said to be on the list along with others. CPM has a track record of freeing its political goon cadres from the jail whenever they came into power. |
Bihar and UP were the two benchmarks in Kerala to describe the deteriorating crime situation, but now it’s payback time, Kerala is well ahead on crime rates when compared to the above-mentioned states. The National Crime Records Bureau’s statistics also concur the same. As per the NCRB data published in 2016 shows, Kerala tops the list with 732.5 criminal cases against one lakh population. It is more than thrice of the national average of 234. Moreover, the southern city of Kollam can be described as the crime city of India as it surpasses Delhi. The crime rate in Kollam is 1194 cases in one lakh whereas Delhi’s tally is 1066.
SFI’s moral policing on girls The University college of Thiruvananthapuram is known as the SFI bastion in the state where no other student’s body cannot exist as a result of SFI anarchy. Two women members of the SFI were having a chat with their male friend, who is a drama activist from another college. They were attacked by the unit secretary of the SFI itself, alleging that the girl students were having illicit relation with the friend. It created a ruckus in the media as well as in the general public but the state president of the SFI justified the act in various TV studios. It poured more fuel. But no legal action was taken after the initial pandemonium. |
It is a historical fact that whenever CPM led govt comes to power in Kerala, there is a sharp jump in
criminal activities. The nexus between politically loyal police and the party functionaries is not a secret. The first thing the Pinarayi Vijayan Govt did was to axe the then State Police Chief T P Senkumar. He was, replaced by Loknath Behra, an officer having alleged proximity with CPM’s
Kannur fold.
After the CPM led Govt came into force, the party unleashed numerous attacks on RSS/BJP workers. In hardly nine months 11 of RSS/BJP workers were killed, which led mass outrage amongst the general public not only in Kerala but all over India. It is true that hypocritical media or activists’ herd would not consider these killings as a benchmark to judge the law and order situation of the state. So here are few incidents which prove it.
Abduction of actress: Criminal conspiracy unfolds
It happened on one of the busiest highways in the state from Angamaly to Ernakulam. A popular film actress was returning home after completing her dubbing work of her current movie. Her car was hit by a tempo traveller and simultaneously intercepted with another car. Four people barged into her car and forcefully took her into a tempo traveller turned caravan. They allegedly shot her videos and pictures and threatened to rape her by injecting drugs. The gang threw her out near a director’s home in the city suburbs.
The police identified the gang and its members who hail from the Film industry itself, but there are enough dots which have not been filled. The main accused Sunil Kumar alias Pulsar Suni was the driver of Mukesh an actor turned CPI MLA. It was the former state president of the BJP V Muralidharan, who demanded that the criminal conspiracy in this incident should be probed. The news channel run by the CPM in the state, Kairali People gave a tarnishing report against the actress and after severe criticism cutting across political and social factions, they published an apology. The state secretary of CPM Kodiyeri Balakrishnan termed it as an isolated incident, whereas the coalition partner CPI snubbed him, former secretary Panniyan Ravindran pointed out that isolated incidents such as these are frequent in the state.
Regarding the Law and Order situation of the state the major partner of the LDF Govt, the CPI, has come out in protest against the Govt. The CPI state secretary criticises the Chief Minister on regular basis regarding the Law and Order situation in the state. It had locked horns with CPM on the killing of Maoist in Nilambur forest a couple of months back.
In repeated judgements, the Supreme Court has reiterated the need to purify the police force from
political alienation. But in Kerala, the successive governments facilitated the party workers to infiltrate into the force thus resulting in a policing stigma. There is an urgent alarm raised regarding the Law and Order situation in the state. If the constitutional authorities do not intervene, forget Bihar and UP, Kerala may well be fit for the Somalia claim. n
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