A fearless Kerala-based journalist Vineetha Venu reported a brutal homicide by CPM goons and CPM made her life hell

The liberals throughout the nation are likely to stay and die by the notion that Freedom of Speech is paramount for a person, and nobody can and must be allowed to encroach upon it. However, within the ‘liberal utopia land’ of Kerala, a former journalist named Vineetha Venu and her household is being always harassed, cyberbullied and threatened for all times after she reported on the ruling Communist occasion and its political murders.In a public publish on Facebook, Vineetha mentioned that her husband, who’s posted at Chombala police station in Kozhikode district, was returning residence when his buddy, who’s a soldier posted within the Northeast, requested him to test concerning the well-being of his dad and mom who stayed near their residence at Payam in Kannur district.When he stopped his bike close to his buddy’s residence and was attending a telephone name, a gaggle of drunken youths got here and began to query his presence and escalated the scenario by hassling him. It was solely when the police from Iritty arrived on the scene that Vineetha’s husband was ‘rescued’ from the spot.The girl journalist additionally remarked that her husband who has by no means consumed alcohol in his life was forcefully subjected to medical testing of alcohol use and was discovered adverse. In what might be termed as crude abuse of energy and political vengeance, Vineetha’s husband was transferred 7 occasions, and the nightmare solely stopped when she lodged a criticism with the state police chief.Troubled by the ordeal, Vineetha pleaded with the CPI-M management to alleviate them of their trauma by “killing the family with a single swing of the machete”. “I, my husband, and my small children will come at Kannur town square… finish us off, but please kill us by a single swing of the machete,” she wrote.According to media experiences, CPI-M and its hoodlums have been focusing on Vineetha ever since she reported on the brutal homicide of Youth Congress employee, Shoaib who was attacked by CPI-M males on February 12, 2018, late at night time. Shoaib had sustained extreme accidents and was rushed to a close-by hospital. A day later, he succumbed to his accidents on the Kozhikode Medical school hospital.“The spot reporting antagonised the CPI-M and they started showering abuses on me and my husband in social media groups,” mentioned Vineetha within the publish. Soon after, the IT cell of CPI-M began insinuating on social media platforms that it was her husband who had leaked the data.Vineetha said that she reported on the incident solely after the Malayali information channels broke the information. However, the CPI-M goons skilled their weapons on her and ever since then have been on Vineetha’s tail.“This was pure vilification. I had done the story after two Malayalam channels had reported on the leakage and levelling the allegations that my husband had leaked to me does not stand as he is a lower level policeman… all the details were with senior police officers,” she mentioned.After the information got here to gentle, the Coalition For Women In Journalism condemned the persistent harassment in opposition to Vineetha and her household and demanded that the harassment and threats in opposition to the journalist have to be investigated by the cybersecurity division of Kerala police in order that she may pursue her skilled commitments with out going through additional persecution.Kerala is dubbed because the land of tremendous intellectuals and eminent personalities who are likely to boast concerning the excessive literacy fee of the state, on the high of their voice. However, if a journalist has to cover and beg the state administration to kill her, for merely reporting on an incident, then it certainly is a big blot on the credibility of the regime and a direct assault on the liberty of speech of that particular person. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who has acquired a mandate for a second straight time period ought to pull again his goons and cease the vengeance-filled assaults on a lady who has been struggling for the final 3 years.