Kin of Konni girls observe fast

The alleged laxity on the part of the Police in properly investigating the case involving the death of three school girls from Konni in suspicious circumstances is a shame on literate Kerala, the Kerala RTI Federation patron, K.N.K. Namboodiri, has said.

Mr Namboodiri was inaugurating the day-long fast before the police station in Konni town on Friday that was observed by the parents and relatives of the two Plus Two students from Konni whose bodies were found on the railway track at Pookkottukunnu in Palakakd district on July 13.

Immediate steps

Mr Namboodiri has called upon the State government to initiate immediate steps to ensure a just probe into the death of the school girls who were missing from their home town from July 9.

Three girls, Athira R. Nair, S. Raji, and Arya K. Suresh, were missing from Konni from July 9.

The matter was duly informed at the Konni police station the same day afternoon.

Though the police had received information that the girls were found at the railway stations of Mavelikkara and Ernakulam, the investigating team failed to trace the girls with the help of the Railway Police, Mr. Namboodiri alleged.

The case

Athira and Raji were later found dead. Arya was found in a seriously wounded condition, on the railway track in Palakkad district, on July 13.

The whole incident exposed the lapses on the part of the Konni police, Mr Namboodiri alleged.

Arya too succumbed to her wounds, later, at the Thrissur Government Medical College Hospital.

Participants

Athira’s parents Ramachandran Nair and Lalitha; Raji’s mother Sujatha and her relatives observed the fast.

A group of workers belonging to the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Students Federation of India too joined the parents and relatives for the fast.