KOCHI: A complainant, who approached the mega adalat organised by the State Women’s Commission here on Thursday with a complaint of harassment by a woman, had to face the ignominy of herself being made an accused in the same case.
The complaint by a home nurse-turned-housewife from Angamaly said that she was being harassed by the daughter of her husband from his first marriage.
However, the Women’s Commission, after hearing both the parties, concluded that there was enough matter for the accused to file a complaint too.
According to Lisie Jose, member of the commission, when the panel took up the case of the housewife, it was found that the accused was facing harassment as she was not allowed to visit the house where her father was staying.
The complainant had been working as a home nurse in the house at Angamaly looking after an old woman.
When the old woman died, she married the man of the house and is at present staying there with three of her own children. She had not been permitting the man’s daughter to visit him.
There was enough matter for the accused to challenge the will of her father in court, the commission decided.
Since the old woman, who had died, had two daughters, both had rights to their mother’s property.
95 cases
A total of 95 cases came up at the adalat on Thursday. Of these, 27 cases were settled, 14 were sent for police investigation and 8 sent to the Revenue Divisional Officer (RDO).
Five cases were sent for counselling while 41 cases were posted for the next adalat.
The majority of cases were related to domestic problems, said Dr. Jose. Commission member M. S. Thara; Director Kuriakose; Circle Inspector K.M. Leela; and advocates John Abraham and Megha Dinesh participated in the adalat.
