Kannur: Radhakrishnan Pattannoor, a veteran media person and senior reporter from Mathrubhumi’s Kannur, said that his daughter was molested with drugs as a fake news based on a fabricated incident. In the written note, Radhakrishnan says that it was the father who molested the girl and he was arrested based on the complaint lodged by his wife. There was also a case against Radhakrishna for giving the news of his arrest.
By the time the case comes to trial, the father’s attempt is to get the child to repent and get out of the case. It should also be established that the child was sexually abused by someone else. It was told to the channels that a boy of the same school drugged his daughter studying in class 9 and 11 other students of the school were also tortured in this way. What was told to the channels was not told to the police.. No father would display his own daughter who was a victim of torture in front of the media’ says Radhakrishnan.
While being an active political activist, journalist Radhakrishnan Pattannoor worked for Desabhimani for 15 years. Working in Mathrubhumi for 15 years
A letter written by Radhakrishnan Pattannoor with the intention of revealing some things as a person who had to go to the police station because of this incident.P
The fact is that this case, which arose in July last year, is completely false.
The child’s father revealed to the media that his daughter studying in class 9 was molested by a classmate of the same school (a government school in Kannur city) and 11 other female students were also drugged and molested.
But his wife had lodged a complaint at the Kharkar Police Station in Maharashtra two years ago that the same Wappa molested her own daughter (the same child) and he was arrested and remanded. (FIR of this case is in my hand)
He is a resident of Kannur city and was in Mumbai for some time. He thinks that Carrie is his wife. They spoke a mixture of English and Hindi.
Later he came to the country with his daughter and settled here.
The police suspect that by the time the trial of the case took place, Thalayuran brought the child to Kannur after hypnotizing him and changing his statement. It should also be established that the child was sexually abused by someone else.
This case originates in July 2022.
He first told some channels that his daughter studying in class 9 was drugged by a boy of the same school and 11 other students of the school were also tortured in this way. What was told to the channels was not told to the police.
I organized his number and called him. I introduced myself by name.
Then he said, ‘Sir, I am in an interview with a channel and I will call you back after an hour.
I told him in the form of a request, ‘Never take your daughter in front of the channel. It is also legally wrong’. His reply was as follows:
“What happened to my daughter should not happen to any other child. Let the world know this.
It was then that I felt there was something mysterious about it.
No father would expose his own abused daughter to the media.
When this shocking information came out, the police and the school authorities also conducted a detailed investigation. In these investigations, it became clear that what the boy and father had revealed was just a lie.
Subsequently, the police conducted an investigation into his life in Maharashtra. The above matter was revealed during this investigation.
On the basis of this information, on August 12, 2022, ‘Mathrubhumi’ gave a news about this. (The news given with it) On the day the news came, he called me and threatened me. Your news was defaming me and threatened to file a case. I replied that no one’s name was mentioned in the news and what was said in the news was true.
Then I also got Kannur Town CI. He filed a complaint against Binu Mohan to the Commissioner of Police. One day A. C. P. They called me and took my statement.
It has been clarified that it is standing firm on the news and not correcting even a single line.
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When this news came, the media also gave up on the matter. They all understood the matter.
Then, months later, the subject gets a rebirth like this.
Some events may not be known at the outset. Sometimes mistakes are made when handling such news. I have it too. But misusing an incident that is clearly fake for other ulterior motives is not in line with the ethics of media work or the sense of justice. This fake news may have been given to establish that drugs have been used in Kerala, including children.
One thing journalists should remember is that we do not have any rights that other citizens do not have. If we get special treatment from the society, it is enough to think that it will be given to them because of their interest in this field.
The freedom of media workers to work must be protected.
It means that there is a right to tell the truth to the world. That is the freedom of the press.
Radhakrishnan Pattanur