ALAPPUZHA: Kerala State Women’s Commission member J Prameela Devi said on Tuesday that more women in the state were getting involved in extra-marital affairs.
She was speaking after a consensus meeting arranged for a woman from Thrikunnapuzha, who had lodged a complaint with the Commission a few weeks ago. The woman had left her husband and is said to have eloped with her lover. She had filed a complaint that her husband was not allowing her to visit her daughter. The Commission had directed the police to conduct an inquiry and the Thrikunnapuzha SI arranged for the consensus meeting.
During the meeting, the woman said that though she did not want to live with her husband and daughter, she wanted to meet the girl. Prameela Devi termed this an irony.
She said the commission had been receiving several complaints about the destruction of family ties due to illicit relations of women. “These kinds of incidents have been creating chinks in the future of children and their views,” she said. She also said that more women were misusing the law too. As an example she said that recently the commission found that a woman petitioner had misused the law to book a sub- inspector of police.
The woman had lodged a complaint with the police station against the atrocities of her neighbours. The police received the complaint and gave her a receipt, but mistakenly changed the number of the receipt. Later the police rectified the mistake and conducted an inquiry as per the law. But the woman approached the Commission against the SI saying he had registered the case with a fake register number.
“But the police submitted all details of the case to the Commission and we did not found any fault with the investigation,” Prameela Devi said.
She said that the society should be vigilant about these kinds of misuse of laws and those trying to destroy the values of family ties. “At the same time all help will be given to the women who were denied justice,” she said. The commission considered 79 cases. Forty cases were settled in the sitting and 20 recommended to police for further inquiry.