Thiruvananthapuram: Amid a raging row over registering of a case against two Dalit sisters and sending them to jail for allegedly attacking a CPI(M) activist in Kannur, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday said there was no need to react to the issue.
"There is case and counter-case in the issue. What is there to react in such a matter? Is it a child going to jail for the first time (in the state)? There were many Tribal children who went to jail before," Mr Vijayan told reporters at the airport here after arriving from Delhi where he attended CPI(M) Central Committee meeting.
"Here, the child was not sent to jail (by anybody), but the child was taken to the prison by the mother," Mr Vijayan said when reporters sought his reaction over the issue.
The recent arrest of two Dalit sisters Akhila (30) and Anjana (25), daughters of a local Congress leader in Thalassery in Kannur, kicked up a row in the state with Congress and BJP attacking the LDF government over the issue. They were slapped with non-bailable charges on a complaint by CPI(M) that the women had barged into the party office in Thalassery and attacked one of their activists recently.
After being released by a court on bail, Anjana had attempted suicide at her home allegedly due to the mental strain over the developments.
"There is case and counter-case in the issue. What is there to react in such a matter? Is it a child going to jail for the first time (in the state)? There were many Tribal children who went to jail before," Mr Vijayan told reporters at the airport here after arriving from Delhi where he attended CPI(M) Central Committee meeting.
"Here, the child was not sent to jail (by anybody), but the child was taken to the prison by the mother," Mr Vijayan said when reporters sought his reaction over the issue.
The recent arrest of two Dalit sisters Akhila (30) and Anjana (25), daughters of a local Congress leader in Thalassery in Kannur, kicked up a row in the state with Congress and BJP attacking the LDF government over the issue. They were slapped with non-bailable charges on a complaint by CPI(M) that the women had barged into the party office in Thalassery and attacked one of their activists recently.
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After being released by a court on bail, Anjana had attempted suicide at her home allegedly due to the mental strain over the developments.
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