Media disclosed the identity of the minor girl committed suicide along with fathers friend in the forest very near to her house allegedly sexually exploited

( Bindu A, Advocate, Writer & alit Feminist) 

The Class X student, a native of Paivalike, had gone missing in the early hours of Feb 12th. The girl’s neighbour also went missing around the same time. The deceased 15 year girl and Praadeep C.K  from  near Dharmatadka  in Kasargode were found only after 26 days oftheir missing. The man was very close to the family and took the girl to school and her father to hospital and available to them any time. However the man misuse the freedom and allegedly trapped the minor girl and intimate to the minor girl.

The 15-year-old girl  and the 42-year-old man were reportedly missing on the early hours from. The police search operations took place near the Merkala forest area as the deceased’s mobile phones switched off. Police had been conducted widespread searches using drones and ground teams earlier.

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They were found hanging on a same tree near the girls house during a mass search on 9^th of March morning. The highly decomposed bodies were found hanging on an acacia tree around 300 meters away from the girl’s house in a suspected case of suicide. Surprisingly that area not only very near to the house but also the forest is not a thick forest.

The search operation started in the headship of DYSP Kasargode along with Sub Inspector of Police Vinod Kumar K and police persons from seven police stations nearby, club members and people from the locality. The Search group consists of more than 100 members and search area extends to 90 acres of  acacia forest. The body found within one and half hours of search operation. The search operation planed only after the criticism by the High court of Kerala. This shows the grave negligence from the part of investigating team.

However the cyber wing of police located the location of mobile phone in the very first day that was also found the same location along with the body. Police told to the media that the location was not exact and the available system only locate the area only and not the exact place that was unbelievable in this scientific era. Police acted very negligently in the initial stage even if they got the mobile phone location.

The search operation started only under pressure and just after the criticism by the high court of Kerala in the habeaous corpus filed by the victim girls mother. The mobile phones were found just near the bodies. The  girl’s family very pathetic living condition however the man committed suicide along with the girl aged 42 is the friend of the father of the girl and very close to the family  members.

Body were found hanging on a tree its very close to the house of girl around 11 am  after 26 days of missing in a decomposed stage. The autopsy took place at Pariyaram Medical college Hospital in  Kannur District.

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Section 23(2) in the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 very specifically stated that, No Reports in any media shall discloses, the identity of a child including her mane , address, photograph, family details, school, neighborhood or any other particulars which may lead to disclosure of identity of the child.

The proviso of the section states that for reasons to be recorded in writing , the special court, competent to try the case under the Act, may permit such disclosure , if in its opinion such disclosure in in the interest of the child. The provisions of  POCSO Act very specifically prohibit the disclosure of the identity of the victim in Pocso cases that was violated in this cases by all most all the medias. This practice is very unfortunate.