Monday 18 February 2013

17 Years of Solitude

The psychological abyss that the Suryanelli rape victim and her family have been living in because she dared name PJ Kurien

"........the girl had filed a petition in the Peerumedu magistrate court against Kurien being absolved by the investigating agency. The court found there was prima facie evidence against Kurien and asked him to face trial. He filed an appeal in the High Court. The litigation went on till 2007, when he was let off on grounds that all the 35 accused in the case had been acquitted. The Supreme Court approved the High Court's judgment and dismissed the appeal filed by the girl. Kurien had the best of lawyers—Arun Jaitley, the BJP leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, represented him in the Supreme Court."

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