FAIR ACTION IS THE NEED OF THE HOUR

THE tragic suicide of Additional District Magistrate (ADM) Naveen Babu in Kannur district, allegedly following a public rebuke by district panchayat president PP Divya, has kicked up a huge storm in Kerala.

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The storm, in fact, is growing stronger despite Divya resigning from the post. Naveen was found dead at his residence on Tuesday, a day after Divya raised corruption allegations against him during his farewell function, in the presence of the media. She criticised the ADM for delaying approval for a petrol pump for months, and claimed that he granted approval only two days after being transferred, hinting at a correlation. That Divya reached the function uninvited, with a battery of media persons, raises suspicion whether she was working to a plot. News reports which appeared in various media, hailing Divya for "calling out a cor