About three kilometres away from the house where a law student was allegedly raped and murdered on April 28, the victim's mother lies on a bed at the government hospital calling her daughter's name and cursing the person(s) responsible for the brutality inflicted on her 30-year-old daughter's body.
With her elder daughter by her side, she recalls how difficult it was to take care of the two daughters, how she would let her daughter study as long as she wants. "Who did this to you my dear? Come here. Come and sit with me," cries the mother, to her daughter who died five days ago with strangulated marks on her neck, close to 30 stabs on her body and her intestines out of her body.
"She died of strangling and smothering shows the initial observations. There were severe wounds all over her body. We can confirm all other details only after we receive the post mortem report," said Mahipal Yadav, Ernakulam range IG.
Two people were questioned by the police but even after five days after the incident, the police have not been able to make a single arrest in connection with the case.
Speaking to those who visit her, the victim's mother repeatedly speaks of people who wanted to harm her and her daughter frequently, and how nobody paid attention to her complaints. "They tried to attack me with their bike. They hated us," she says talking about a neighbour.
"She was mentally unstable. She made noise often and none of us wanted to intervene in their matter," says Bindu Susan, president of the local residents' association about the mother. Even the cries for help from the victim and her mother on the 28th would have gone into deaf ears for the same reason.
The victim lived with her mother in a house whose door could be broken with one kick, a single room with no window panes, on a land that isn't their own. Less than 50 meters away there are several houses but it was her mother who saw the mutilated body of her body first.
The locals say the police had played down the incident, never showed them the body or told what happened which is why they hadn't intervened.
Almost a week after the incident not a single Minister visited the mother to offer consolation or inquire what led to the incident. Even Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala who was in Perumbavoor returned without meeting the mother after a group of protesters shouted anti-government slogans outside the hospital gate.
Pressure is mounting on the government with protests erupting from different parts of the state and opposition is using this incident as a weapon against the ruling front. But with less than two weeks left for the assembly elections in Kerala, the fear is that this case too like many others may fade away without a conclusion.
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Comment:-   Shame on us all, One day we all will suffer with these Circumstances.
                                  A.J.S.Chandi