THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Action was taken against three police officers for falsely accusing a 37-year-old mother of molesting her thirteen-year-old son and for putting her in jail for 27 days. The Home Department has ordered an inquiry against DYSP SY Suresh, Inspector Sivakumar, and SI Vinod, prior to departmental action. This is as per the recommendation of DGP Anilkanth.

After the crime branch investigation found that the case registered by the Kadaikkavur police in December 2020 was fabricated by the husband on the grounds of a family quarrel, a report was filed in the court saying that no further action should be taken.

Crime branch had found that the police did not take into account the family problems or court cases between the mother and her husband and did not seek the advice of the superior officers before arresting the mother. High Court granted bail to the mother after IG's special team investigation found no evidence of abuse. DGP found that SI Vinod lacked attention when he prepared Mahsar after finding the mother's mobile, and CI Sivakumar and DySP Suresh did not seek legal advice and did not issue instructions to the SI, which caused serious setbacks.

The SI and the child's father spoke 67 times in 21 days. The personal phone details of the 3 officers could not be collected.

The husband forced the child to give a false statement to implicate his wife in the case. Crime branch found that the boy's statement was false with the help of psychologists and doctors. The younger boy had revealed that his father had thrashed the kid to give such a statement, but the police did not accept it. The mother has 3 sons aged 17, 13, and 11, and a daughter aged 6.

This was the first case where a mother was arrested for molesting her own son. The child's parents were not on good terms and the child was under the care of the mother. The Father went to Gulf for remarriage when the divorce case was still going on. The child, who had gone to the Gulf with his father, approached the police through his father with a complaint that his mother had molested him when they came back.

Mother was made the abuser because of a family fight

• The false case was initiated when the husband, who had been estranged from the woman for three years, had remarried and the wife filed a case for alimony.
• The arrest and remand were done without conducting a preliminary investigation and without verifying the authenticity of the 13-year-old boy's statement against his mother.
• The mother complained to the Jamaat Committee and Attingal DySP against her husband but no action was taken.

The sacred bond between a mother and child

The High Court said that the warm love between a mother and her child cannot be compared to anything else and the love relationship that begins before birth has no conditions and ordered the arrest of the culprits. The order of Justice V Shircy also said that the case alleging abuse against the mother is disregarding the sanctity of motherhood.