KOCHI, April 9 -- A bold initiative by Kerala's own Nirbhaya made the CPI(M) led Government eat humble pie and reinstate a senior nursing officer who stood steadfast with the victim of a gruesome rape.
P B Anitha, senior nursing officer, Kozhikode Medical College Hospital (MCH), who has been suspended from service at the intervention of Veena George, the State's controversial health minister, was reinstated by a special order following widespread demonstration and rallies against the minister's high-handed attitude.
Anitha was put under suspension for extending all support to the Nirbhaya, who was brutally raped by a CPI(M) trade union leader while she was undergoing treatment at the Intensive Care Unit of the MCH.
According to doctors a...