New Delhi: Kerala, a federal state on the southern tip of India, had a very bad day in the national Parliament on Wednesday, with the house condemning the most heinous crime committed on a Dalit law student, in spite of its much touted tag as “God’s Own Country”.
Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of the Indian Parliament, expressed concern over the rape and murder of a Dalit law student at Perumbavoor in Ernakulam district of Kerala.
The 30-year-old underprivileged woman, Jisha, who lived with her aged mother was subjected to brutal torture and rape, a crime similar to that of the Nirbhaya case which rocked the nation.
“God’s own country should not turn into a rapist country,” said Tarun Vijay, a BJP Parliamentarian from Uttarakhand. Tarun was the editor of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) weekly in Hindi, Panchajanya, from 1986 to February 2008.
Vijay who raised the issue as soon as the Rajya Sabha met, said it was a repeat of the Nirbhaya case and that the Kerala government failed to control such incidents.
With the crime graph rising in Kerala, the State’s tag line describing itself as “God’s Own Country” has become a butt of joke across India.
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