PALAKKAD: A case has been registered against the woman who filed a police complaint alleging she was sexually harassed inside CPM’s area committee office at Cheruplassery in Palakkad. The Mangara police recorded a case against the woman under non-bailable offence for abandoning the new born baby.

The 21-year-old woman filed a police complaint alleging she was sexually harassed inside the party committee office at Cheruplassery, following which a probe has been started.

A case was registered after police found a newborn girl last Saturday abandoned on a roadside. They traced her mother, who said the baby was born after she was allegedly abused by a student activist inside the party office 10 months ago, police sources said.

The woman claimed in her complaint that she went to the party office for preparation of a college magazine, when the incident happened.

A local CPI (M) leader said the woman is a SFI activist and her family has close links with the party.

The party would probe if such an incident has taken place in its office and police also should conduct a truthful and scientific probe, he added.

Police officials are yet to record statement of the man, who is being accused.

The woman and the newborn have been hospitalized, police said.