Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SB)
Mangaluru, Sep 23: Several members of the Justice for Kavya Action Committee were arrested after they held a semi-nude protest over the death of Kavya, a student of Alva's High School, Moodbidri, here on Saturday September 23.
The protestors led by the forum gathered near Wenlock hospital to hold their rally to DC's office, despite the fact the police had denied them permission. The protestors however went ahead with the rally, during which, they started to remove their clothes. The police then intervened and arrested several semi-nude protestors.
Speaking to the protesters, Dinaker Shetty said, "Police and the district administration are trying to stop us from staging agitation by making arrests. But we do not care about arrests. We will fight until get justice is done to Kavya and her family.
"Our main demand is that the investigation should be done by COD. We do not have any faith in the investigation conducted by the local police. Last week we submitted a memorandum to the state home minister about this. But no action has been taken so far. When we met him he assured that within days the police department would reveal the findings of the investigation, but it has not yet happened. At the time of Kavya's death, all local police, leaders and elected MLA s visited her house and assured justice. But later they joined the support rallies of Mohan Alva. They are all with Mohan Alva and as per his instructions, they are trying to end the investigation by terming it as a common case of suicide," he said.
Social worker Robert Rosario said, "Government agencies are not functioning in Moodbidri. Mohan Alva is ruling there and all elected representatives and police are working under his command. It has been almost two months since Kavya's death, but till her death certificate is not available in Moodbidri taluk office. It shows how governments offices are functioning in Moodbidri. So our request is to conduct COD investigation, as only that will reveal the truth behind Kavya's death."
Anil Das, Shashwat Bhandary, Nirmal Kumar, Shipal Raj, Shailesh Kottari, Harish Amtadi, Shailesh Kottari, Jeevan Neermarga led the protest. Hundreds of students from various schools and colleges from the city participated in protest.