Woman, who claimed to have misplaced job after praising Oommen Chandy, booked for forgery

By PTI

KOTTAYAM: Kerala police on Saturday registered a forgery and impersonation case in opposition to a girl who lately claimed to have misplaced her job after praising former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy.

Allegations levelled by P O Sathi Amma, a local of by-poll-bound Puthuppally, triggered a political row early this week as opposition Congress used her removing from the short-term job as a marketing campaign software in opposition to the ruling CPI(M) within the constituency.

According to police, Sathi Amma, a member of the ladies empowerment community Kudumbashree, gained her job as a brief sweeper at a state-run veterinary centre, by means of forgery.

“She was booked under various sections of IPC including 419 (cheating by personation), 420 (cheating), 468 (forgery) and 471 (using as genuine a forged document),” a police officer instructed PTI.

The instances have been registered based mostly on a criticism filed by Lijimol, a former office-bearer of the ladies’s community, they stated.

As per the criticism lodged with the district police chief, she alleged that the 52-year-old Sathi Amma was working in her identify by forging paperwork.

The girl, within the criticism, additionally accused some current office-bearers of the community of offering help to the accused for the alleged forgery and impersonation.

She additionally stated that although she was a former office-bearer of the all-woman community, she had neither utilized for the job on the veterinary centre in the previous couple of years nor obtained any wage.

Meanwhile, Sathi Amma stated she was not afraid of the case and he or she would face it legally.

“I have not done anything wrong…I discharged my duties with all sincerity,” she instructed reporters right here.

Rejecting the costs levelled by the complainant, she additionally stated she was recruited by the Kudumbashree and he or she was given the wage by means of the community’s account.

Sathi Amma stated she has the help of all of the Congress employees and leaders in preventing the case.

Some office-bearers of the native Kudumbashree unit, which recruited Sathi Amma for the job, have been additionally booked below numerous sections of IPC, police sources stated.

As the much-awaited Puthuppally bypoll is simply days away, the removing of the girl sweeper from the state-run veterinary centre within the constituency right here triggered an argument.

When the opposition Congress got here out in help of the girl, who claimed that she misplaced her job as a result of she had praised former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy in a tv programme, the CPI(M)-led LDF authorities denied the costs, saying there was no politics behind her removing.

Sathi Amma, who had been working as a brief sweeper for a while on the veterinary centre, stated {that a} reporter of a TV channel had lately taken a soundbite from her for its programme, by which she spoke concerning the help and help that her household had obtained from Chandy throughout their time of misery.

The girl additionally stated through the programme that Chandy Oommen, the son of the late Congress stalwart, would win the Puthuppally bypoll.

Animal Husbandry Department sources had stated that the girl was recruited by means of the all-women community Kudumbashree and was eliminated as her tenure ended.

Animal Husbandry Minister J Chinchu Rani additionally dismissed allegations of political interference within the removing of Sathi Amma from the short-term job and gave an elaborate rationalization claiming that the girl had impersonated one other individual to get the job.

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