Thiruvananthapuram: The sole Revolutionary Marxist Party of India legislator K K Rema has sent a a legal notice to CPM leaders MV Govindan and Sachin Dev for alleging that the injury she suffered during the clash in the Legislative Assembly was fake.
The Vatakara MLA stated that she would file a defamation suit against them if they did not withdraw their incorrect remarks.
An MRI scan conducted last month had revealed that Rema had injured the ligaments in her right hand in two places.
Rema sent a legal notice to MLA Sachin Dev who first made the statement and CPM State Secretary M V Govindan for backing his claim.
She has contended in the legal notices -- also sent to CPM mouthpiece Deshabhimani -- that the two Left front leaders defamed her on social and mainstream media by claiming that the injury to her hand was fake, a source said.
The notice has said that if the two Left front leaders and the CPM newspaper do not respond to the notices and also publicly apologise to her within 15 days of receiving it, she would file both civil and criminal defamation cases against them, the source said.
The civil defamation case would be for Rs 1 crore damages, the UDF MLA has said in her notice sent through advocate P Kumarankutty, the source said.
The injury on Rema’s right hand occurred when the Watch and Ward personnel tried to push her away during the Opposition protest in front of the Speaker’s office on March 15.
The doctor at the Assembly who was consulted at first referred her to the General Hospital. The orthopaedics at the hospital who examined her recommended putting the cast of plaster on the hand. But, Sachin Dev claimed on Facebook the same day the plaster had been put on the wrong hand.
(With PTI inputs)
