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10] KERALA LOCK-UP DEATH: Sivarajan Died Of Heart Disease, Says Report The Hindu, January 22, 2005, Saturday Sivarajan died of heart disease, says report THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JAN. 21 . Dog trainer K. Sivarajan, 48, who was arrested by the Poojappura police on January 16, died in custody owing to "occlusive heart disease", according to the post-mortem examination report. The police arrested him on the charge of drunken and riotous behaviour on January 16 evening. According to them, he collapsed at 8.30 a.m. on January 17, while having breakfast at the station. He was rushed in a police vehicle to the General Hospital where he was pronounced dead on admission. A case of unnatural death was registered and inquest conducted by the Revenue Divisional Officer. Tape handed over The post-mortem was conducted at the Medical College Hospital on January 17 by the Deputy Police Surgeon, and a lecturer in forensic medicine, N. A. Balaram. It was taped on video and the cassette handed over to the Magistrate. The doctors found a contusion on the left side of Sivarajan's head, and an abrasion on the middle finger of his left hand. The report said that the injuries had not caused his death. http://www.hindu.com/2005/01/22/stories/2005012211100400.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 11] TSUNAMI: Kerala Woman Blames Car Nicobar School For Missing Husband Keralaonline.com/IANS, January 22, 2005, Saturday Woman blames school for missing husband Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 22: A distraught woman is holding the Kendriya Vidyalaya school authorities responsible for the disappearance of her husband in the wake of the tsunami tragedy. Saraswathi Sisupalan is one of the hundreds in Kerala who are yet to recover from the Dec 26 disaster. Her ordeal is still not over. Almost a month after the gigantic waves killed thousands on Indian shores, the mother of three does not know if her husband A. Sisupalan, a 57-year-old Kendriya Vidyalaya teacher, is alive or not. She last spoke to her husband, who was a biology teacher in Car Nicobar, on Christmas day. The next day the tsunami hit the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and since then she has not heard from him. "I have not slept properly since then but I have not given up hope. I hope and pray my husband will return one day," Saraswathi told IANS here, trying to hold back her tears. Even as she was grieving for him, an Indian Air Force official in Car Nicobar claimed he had spotted the man Dec 27 while waiting to board a plane. But there has been no independent collaboration, and Sisupalan, assuming he somehow managed to survive, has not called home. The Kendriya Vidyalaya headquarters in New Delhi has not been able to shed light on his whereabouts. "I got a letter from the Kendriya Vidyalaya on Jan 11 stating my husband and three other employees at the Car Nicobar school have been reported missing after the tsunami," said Saraswathi, a clerk at a government office. She is furious with what she feels is Kendriya Vidyalaya's lack of concern for her husband's welfare, and accuses its senior officials of victimising him. "Car Nicobar area comes under the category of 'hard stations' and it is mandatory that anyone who serves a minimum period of two years in such stations gets transferred," she said. "But despite spending three-and-a-half years there, my husband was not transferred out of Car Nicobar." She said Sisupalan used to call a spade a spade, and this made his seniors dislike him. Unlike many of his fellow teachers, he had also served in other "hard stations". Saraswathi lamented that despite writing letters to President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh, she has received no help. "Except for the president who acknowledged my letter, there was no response from the other two," rued Saraswathi. "Several times I myself had written to Kendriya Vidyalaya officials in Delhi pointing out vacancies elsewhere where my husband could be transferred, but nothing happened. Despite my husband having enough points to get a transfer under various options, he never got justice," she said. But despite the mental agony that she and her three children are undergoing, she remains hopeful that some day there will be news that Sisupalan is safe - and living somewhere. "I have faith in god and I believe that my husband will come home to see me and our three children," she said. [Agency] http://www.asianetindia.com/keralanews.asp?folder=Keralanews&file=7_5014.xml ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 12] KERALA: Muslim Women Step Into Eidgah Grounds New Indian Express, January 22, 2005, Saturday Muslim women step into Eidgah grounds IANS THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In a sure sign of change, many Muslim women in Kerala arrived at open grounds to offer prayers along with men on the occasion of Eid-ul-Zuha on Friday. Reports from various parts of the state indicated that huge crowds of men and women were seen at Eidgah grounds in cities like Kozhikode, Kannur and Kochi, central Kerala and here. Ace filmmaker Fazil said the trend of Muslim women stepping out to offer prayers appears to have occurred thanks to scholars who were beginning to have a broader outlook. "No doubt the number of women attending prayer sessions in the open and at mosques has more than doubled in the last five years," said Fazil. "What helped this phenomenon was a comparison with other religions by our scholars." Former minister and senior Congress legislator M.M. Hassan also said there was a visible increase in the number of Muslim women coming out for prayers. "Today I went to a stadium here for morning prayers and was the least surprised to see a huge gathering of women because I expected it. This increase is going to be there in the coming years too, something that has been more or less generally welcomed by our community," said Hassan. Shemi Ramshad, a 28-year-old housewife in Ettumannor near Kottayam, however, felt this phenomenon was true of cities and big towns and not of rural areas. "I wished to go to an Eidgah but could not because there wasn't any such ground in my village. If there was I would have gone," said Ramshad who was busy cooking a sumptuous lunch for her family. Hassan agreed. "Yes, there still exists a divide on whether Muslim women should go for these prayers. But the resistance to it has come down. May be in the coming years, the phenomenon will extend to villages as well." http://www.newindpress.com/Newsitems.asp?ID=IER20050121100740&Title=Kerala&Topic=0& ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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