Mother kills endosulfan sufferer, ends life in Kasaragod

By Express News Service

KANHANGAD: In a case of suspected murder-suicide that can put highlight on the shortage of institutional look after individuals with particular wants.

A lady allegedly killed her daughter, an endosulfan sufferer with mental disabilities, and ended her life of their home at Panathady panchayat on Monday.

The deceased have been recognized as Vimala Kumari (58), a cook dinner of Government High School at Chamundikunnu at Ottamala in Panathady panchayat, and her daughter Reshma R (28).

Persons near the household mentioned Vimala Kumari had a excessive degree of future nervousness due to her daughter and the case of suspected murder-suicide ought to put the highlight on the insufficient institutional look after individuals with particular wants in Kasaragod district.

Vimala Kumari and Reshma lived in a three-room asbestos roofed home at Chamundikunnu. Her husband Raghunath died 20 years in the past.

They have two older sons, Renjith and Manu, who stay with their wives in Kochi and Karnataka, respectively.

Around 3 pm on Monday, Manu’s spouse Bhagyalakshmi got here to the home at Chamundikunnu and located her mother-in-law and sister-in-law lifeless in the home.

Rajapuram station home officer Unnikrishnan V mentioned there was a ribbon round Reshma’s neck.

“It appears she was strangled. Her mother was found hanging. We will have to wait for the postmortem report to conclude the cause of their deaths,” he mentioned.

Vimala Kumari was a mid-day meals cook dinner with neighbourhood Government High School for round 25 years, mentioned Padma Kumar, who teaches Malayalam in the identical college.

“The fear of who will take care of her daughter after she is gone always haunted her. She often spoke about her daughter,” he mentioned.

Till 5 years in the past, her husband’s mom used to deal with Reshma.

“After she died, Reshma will be put in a residential convent at Birikulam,” mentioned N Vincent, a member of Panathady panchayat and literacy activist.

But after the outbreak of COVID, such colleges have been shut and Reshma was in the home for 2 years.
Now as the college is about to reopen on June 1, Vimala Kumari wished to ship her daughter again to the convent in order that she will be able to take up the cook dinner’s job.

“But whenever the mother mentions the convent, Reshma used to become violent. She did not like going back to that institution,” he mentioned.

Vimala Kumari had solely two decisions: both to lock up her daughter in the home and go to the college or ship her to the convent.

“She might not have liked the first option and the daughter did not like the second option,” mentioned Vincent.

The authorities gave Rs 3 lakh as a part of the compensation for endosulfan survivors. As per the Supreme Court judgment, the federal government nonetheless owes one other Rs 2 lakh to the household.

The authorities introduced a rehabilitation village for endosulfan survivors at Muliyar in 2015. After six years, there isn’t any exercise on the barren web site.

Though the activists and the affected households are demanding a residential centre for the victims, the federal government is planning to construct solely a day-care centre there.

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