The State Human Rights Commission has ordered the State Police Chief to investigate an 84-year-old woman’s complaint about the harassment and ignominy she suffered for four years after being wrongly incriminated by the police.
Bharathiyamma, an octogenarian victim of a mistaken identity in a criminal case from Kunissery, had written to the Chief Minister and the State Human Rights Commission seeking action against the police for mistakenly arresting her and wrongly subjecting her through the harrowing legal proceedings for four years.
It was with shock and surprise that a court here exonerated her a few days ago following a submission by the original complainant of a 1998 case that Bharathiyamma had not been the accused in his complaint, and that she had been wrongly incriminated by the police on mistaken identity.
