By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent,
Kasargode: The Vidyanagar police have reportedly filed a case against Rayana (23), the girl in the controversial head-scarf row in Kasargode. The case reportedly alleges that Rayana R Qazi had received money from an educational institution in Karnataka for recruiting students from Kerala, but failed to recruit students. Rayana became controversial when she complained to the police that she was threatened by certain persons for not wearing the burqa.
The case is reportedly as per the order of the Kasargode First Class Magistrate Court in a petition filed by V Raghuram, General Manager of the Dhanvanthari School of Nursing in Uduppi in Karnataka. The case is against Rayana’s mother Suhra also. The college authorities say that Rayana received the amount in the name of Riya Education Consultancy, New Bevincha, on condition that she would recruit 40 students within a time-frame from January 22, 2010 to the beginning of the academic year. The college reportedly alleges that she had taken Rs 2.14 lakhs including Rs 50, 000 as advance in different times. But the students promised were not brought even after the beginning of the academic year. The Vidyanagar police registered the case on Monday.
Rayana, an engineering graduate, has already been in news for an alleged threat to her by certain fundamentalist elements. She was reportedly threatened by certain people on phone and by sending her letters to follow the Islamic dress code. She was then provided police protection as per a High Court order on her complaint. Police registered case against certain people in Bevincha in the matter. The investigation into the case is going on.
However, no organisation or individual has so far claimed responsibility of the alleged threats made to Rayana. There are also doubts as to why Rayana was threatened when a large number of Muslim girls and women go out to study and work in Kerala without following the Islamic dress code. Kerala’s northernmost district of Kasargode is very near to Mangalore in Karnataka where moral policing by the Sri Ramsene had created headlines. The daughter of a leading politician in Kasargode was ‘punished’ by alleged members of the Sri Ramsene last year for talking to a friend of another community. However, such moral policing was not very common among Muslims.