Dear chetta, don’t humiliate our men

 

In her letter sent to Justice P D Rajan’s residential address, Soumya, wife of a policeman serving in the city, listed the uncertainties the cops face in their daily life. 

 

Addressing the judge repeatedly as chetta (elder), a crime for which the judge allegedly made two policemen stand for an entire day at the court room, she pointed out that a cop has no security either for his job or his life. “The recent suicide of Shaji (Kozhikode) is an example,” she said in the letter. “We also have self respect and basic human rights."  

 

 

The post card that Soumya sent to the residential address of Justice P D Rajan 

 

Shaji, a civil police officer recently committed suicide after being suspended for forwarding a WhatsApp clip, which he collected as part of investigation into a sex racket involving school children, to his  superiors.

 

She also asked the judge and his wife to pray for the welfare of the cops and their family and not to humiliate them. The letter was posted on Facebook and was shared by the cops in WhatsApp groups. 

 

The judge, who had summoned the two cops, had  in the open court had criticised the act of the policemen and summoned Kochi City Police Commissioner the other day.