Moral policing or abuse? Cops, family at odds over Kannur woman's suicide

TENSION is mounting over Kayalodu, Kannur, native Raseena K's suicide, with police and the victim's family offering conflicting accounts of the episode that led to the 40-year-old taking her own life.

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TENSION is mounting over Kayalodu, Kannur, native Raseena K's suicide, with police and the victim's family offering conflicting accounts of the episode that led to the 40-year-old taking her own life. While police have arrested three Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) activists -- V C Mubasheer, K A Faizal, V K Rafnas -- on charges of moral policing and confirmed the case is being treated as abetment to suicide, Raseena's family insists her male friend was to blame for her death.

Kannur City Police Commissioner Nithin Raj told reporters that a suicide note left by Raseena was recovered, which detailed the events leading up to her death. According to the note, Raseena and her male friend were confronted by a group of men who threatened them, filmed them in a compromising manner, and took away her friend's mobile phone. The note reportedly made no mention of her friend being responsible for her death.