The Congress, tapping into the ground swell of public outrage over the rape and murder of a five-year-old girl child hailing from a migrant worker family in Aluva in Ernakulam, assailed the government for alleged police apathy and incompetence.
It also gave the heinous crime a national dimension, with Congress leader Benny Behanan, MP, raising the issue in the Parliament.
At home, Congress workers marched to the Aluva police station, accusing the police of not taking a crack at tracing the missing child and sitting on the complaint lodged by the hapless parents.
