Neyyattinkara mishap: CPM offers job to deceased couple’s son in cooperative bank

Neyyattinkara: CPM has offered a job in cooperative bank for Rahul, the eldest son of the couple Rajan and Ambili, who died of burn injuries during a self-immolation bid to resist eviction procedures near here in Thiruvananthapuram.

The Neyyattinkara area committee has decided to provide job with government approval at the Nellimmoodu cooperative bank. Also, the couple’s younger son Ranjith will be given a job with the help of Social Security Mission after completing studies.

Government had offered to protect the children and to provide house and plot to the children. The job offer comes following this.

K Ansalan MLA said that the decision of the bank administrative committee will be informed to the government.

Meanwhile, Rahul and Ranjith bid farewell to their parents on Sunday by lighting lamps on their tombs.

They want to own the land where their parents were laid to rest and expressed hope that government would provide them the same soon.

The couple-Rajan (47) and his wife Ambili (40), natives of Nellimoodu at nearby Neyyattinkara- succumbed to burns at the government medical college hospital here after they sustained multiple organ failure on Monday.

 The incident triggered widespread criticism against local police.

Soon after the couple's death, the DGP had asked Thiruvananthapuram Rural SP B Ashok Kumar to probe the immolation incident and submit a report in the wake of the widespread complaints against police raised by the deceased couple's sons and other family members.

 Based on the report the probe was handed over to the Crime Branch, sources added.

The state government had decided to provide land, house and financial help of Rs five lakh each to Rahul and Ranjith, the teenage sons of the couple.

All necessary help and protection would be extended to them under an appropriate scheme of the Women and Children's department, an official statement had said.

 The death of the couple had triggered a row in the state with opposition parties blaming police for the unfortunate incident, following which the state government immediately announced help for them.

 In his dying declaration, the man had blamed the police for the incident.

 The video of the couple's sons wailing outside the hospital for help to cremate their father at the disputed land as per his last wish had gone viral on the social media, following which many had offered help to construct a house for them.