Suryanelli case victim files new complaint against Kurien
Friday February 22, 2013 07:14:04 PM,IANS
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Kottayam (Kerala): The
victim in the infamous Suryanelli sex case Friday filed a new
complaint against Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman P.J. Kurien, whom
she has accused of being among those who exploited her.
"Yes, she along with a lot of people arrived at the police station
and has filed the complaint. We have accepted the complaint and
given a receipt," said a police official attached to the
Chingavanam police station where the complaint was filed.
The victim, accompanied by her counsel and her parents, approached
the Chingavanam police station as it was the closest to her
residence. In her complaint, she repeated her earlier complaint
that Kurien had exploited her at a guest house in Idukki on Feb
19, 1996
A sub-inspector has taken the complaint to brief Kottayam's
superintendent of police.
The sex scandal took place at Suryanelli in Idukki district
January 1996, when the then 16-year-old was threatened, abducted
and abused by a bus conductor and was later confined and sexually
assaulted for 45 days by 42 men.
The case was back in the spotlight after the Supreme Court ordered
a retrial in the case Jan 31 while setting aside the acquittal in
2005 by the Kerala High Court of all but one of the 35 accused
convicted by a special court.
Kurien's name never appeared in the list of accused. After the
lower court found more than 42 people guilty in the 1990s, the
victim then filed a private complaint against Kurien in a court in
Idukki. He got a discharge in the case from the apex court in that
petition.
His name resurfaced when Dharmarajan, the only accused whose
conviction was upheld by the high court but who had jumped bail in
2005, told a TV channel here that Kurien had travelled in his car
to Idukki. Dharmarajan was arrested from neighbouring Karnataka
earlier this month.
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