'Victim's mother engaged in sexual act in front of daughters': CBI's shocking move in infamous Walayar case

KOCHI: CBI is heading for a crucial move in the much discussed Walayar rape case. The CBI asked the trial court to put the elder girl's mother and the younger girl's father on the accused list. The CBI found that the mother was also involved in the sexual harassment of minor girls in Walayar. The CBI informed the court that the mother and father were accused in six of the nine cases. The case will be considered again on March 25th.

In the charge sheet filed by the CBI in the court, the investigation team stated that the victim’s mother engaged in a sexual act with the first accused in front of her daughters. More grotesque is the CBI finding that the younger girl was subjected to unnatural sex with the mother’s knowledge.

The CBI took up the investigation on a petition filed by the child's mother after she felt dissatisfied with the local police investigation. When the investigation got deeper and the grand scheme of shady details emerged, the CBI filed a charge sheet against the petitioner as the second accused and the father as the third accused. Various other charges have also been invoked, including abetment of suicide.

On January 13, 2017, the elder of the two sisters was found hanging dead in Walayar. On March 4 of the same year, the younger girl was also found hanging dead. The children were thirteen and nine years old. The case came CBI’s way after the trial court acquitted all the accused, which triggered massive protests across the state.

The mother of the girls staged a huge protest demanding justice for her children, shaved her head and even contested against CM Pinarayi Vijayan in the last assembly election in Dharmadom.