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Not all Adivasi women released: MLA

By Our Special Correspondent

KOZHIKODE MARCH 11. The CPI MLA, Binoy Viswom, has said that the Chief Minister, A.K. Antony, has not yet kept his promise to release all Adivasi women and children who were sent to jail for involvement in the violence inside the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary at Muthanga.

After meeting Janu, Geethanandan and others who were being kept in the district jail in Kozhikode today, Mr. Viswom said even though the Chief Minister had announced in the Assembly that all tribal women and children interned in jails would be released, three women and two children were still in the Kozhikode district jail.

A head injury suffered by one child, four-year-old Vishnu, had not healed yet. The MLA was told that the police had beaten up the prisoners when they were being brought from Bathery to the district jail in Kozhikode. Madhavan of Appappara colony told Mr. Viswom that his wife, Meenakshi, five-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Reshma, and two-year-old son, Ranjit, were missing. Janu and Geethanandan told the MLA that they were brutally tortured by the police soon after their arrest.

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