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The All-India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) State secretary, P.K.Sreemathi, MLA, has alleged that the State has become a grazing ground for sex racketeers and anti- socials, leaving it in a shameful state of sexual anarchy.
Addressing a press conference here today, Ms Sreemathy alleged that it was a shame on the highly literate Kerala that sexual harassment of minor girls and women have become the order of the day here with the State law-enforcing agency remaining "simply inactive'' in checking the crime.
The MLA was here to visit a 20-year old woman of Pandalam who has reportedly been sexually harrassed by a pastor and his two sons, besides a while employed as a home nurse at an old age home at Mallaserry near here as well at a Bible college in Thiruvananthapuram over the past few months.
Though the police has registered a case against the pastor, P.K.Sam, and his sons, Samson K.Sam and Stephen K.Sam, the accused have not been arrested so far owing to political pressure from certain ruling party higher-ups, the MLA alleged.
Ms Sreemathy demanded immediate arrest of all the three accused in connection with the sexual harassment of the woman.
She said that the JMA would submit a memorandum to the Chief Minister, A.K.Antony, demanding stern action against the accused in various sexual harassment cases in the State.
She has alleged that the girl from Pandalam who was employed as home-nurse at an old age home run by the pastor was reportedly subjected to brutal sexual assaults by the three accused and the police appeared to have left enough room for the culprits to escape owing to the "political patronage'' they enjoy from certain ruling party top-brass.
According to the MLA, this is not an isolated incident in the so-called `God's own country' and sexual harassment of women has more or less become the order of the day, which needs urgent attention of the Government and the authorities concerned.
``It is sad to hear the allegations that even the police have tried to tamper the certificates of the victim of the Thoppumpady sex scandal with a view to protect certain ruling party leaders who too were said to have been involved in the sexual harassment of the girl,'' Ms Sreemathy said.
``Moreover, criminal gangs and sex rackets thrive in the nook and corner of the State, leaving even our villages exposed to sexual anarchy,'' she alleged.
The MLA alleged that it was a shame to say that the gender sex in the so-called highly literate State of Kerala were insecure due to the prevailing sexual anarchy here.
The issue assumes much more gravity
when the Chief Minister himself has recently stated that sex crimes were
on the rise in the State over the past one year, she added.
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