Mangalore, Nov 26: Under the leadership of Communist Party of India (Marxist), dozens of protestors, including women, participated in the mass protest rally demanding CBI investigation in Soujanya rape and murder case and other 463 cases of unnatural deaths that have taken place in Dharmasthala and Ujire in the past three decades.
The mass protest rally began from the town of Dharmasthala on Thursday and culminated in front of the Deputy Commissioner's office here at noon on Tuesday.
Addressing the crowd of protestors at a public meeting here at noon, CPI(M) Parliamentary Party leader Basudev Acharya said that a situation of lawlessness had been created in Dharmasthala region where uncivilised activities were taking place for over a decade. From several years, young women are being raped and killed and land belonging to the poor is illegally being grabbed in Dharmasthala without any regard for the law of this country, he said.
Demanding justice for all the victims in the cases of unnatural deaths in Dharmasthala since 1985, he asked the protestors, “Will we allow this exploitation and oppression to happen in this civilised country? Should this be allowed to continue? When a young woman was kidnapped and brutally gang-raped in Delhi, people took to the streets fighting for justice. But here in Dharmasthala, the state government took an entire year to demand CBI investigation in the Soujanya case. This is not an issue of a particular state but a national issue. We will put forth this issue even in the Parliament, and continue our fight for justice to the young women who were raped and murdered in the regions of Dharmasthala and Ujire,” he told the protestors.
He said that out of the 463 cases of unnatural deaths that had occurred in the region, 95 of them were young women. “The feudal system of land ownership that existed in the 17th century where the feudal land owners brutalised people and no action was taken against them, is prevalent in Dharmasthala in the 21st century. The citizens of India have a fundamental right to live. But the government is not providing the people with this right which was taken away from the 464 persons who were killed. This is entirely unconstitutional,” he lamented.
CPI(M) Central Committee leader U Vasuki also addressed the protestors.
CPI(M) state secretary G V Srirama Reddy, renowned advocate S Shankarappa and CPI(M) leaders Vasanth Achari and Balakrishna Shetty participated in the public meeting.
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