Mother of CPI(M) worker dies, party blames RSS

Sarojini, mother of a local Communist Party of India (Marxist) functionary, whose house at Venduttayi, near Pinarayi, was attacked allegedly by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) workers on February 2 died at Kozhikode Medical College Hospital on Friday.

CPI(M) leaders said at a peace meeting here that Sarojini, 63, mother of party Venduttayi North branch secretary C. Shaijan, succumbed to injuries she suffered in a bomb attack by RSS activists on her house on February 2. The RSS denied involvement of its workers in the incident.

RSS workers had allegedly hurled bombs on the road in front of the house. Shaijan’s father Achuthan, 69, and mother Sarojini got admitted to the Thalassery Co-operative Hospital and were discharged on February 3, according to the CPI(M).

The Kathirur police, however, said Sarojini had not suffered any injury in the alleged attack by RSS workers. She had been undergoing treatment for some age-related ailment and was admitted to Pariyaram Medical College on February 19 for treatment.

If the doctors had been told that she had sustained injuries in the attack, the police would have been promptly informed by the hospital authorities.

Moreover, a police team that visited the house and nearby areas a couple of times in connection with the investigation into the attack had not been told by her relatives that she had been hospitalised with injuries suffered in the attack, the police said.