On 25th October, the daughter of a Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader PV Bhaskaran disclosed that her father had imprisoned her in their home and was torturing her severely. 35-year-old PV Sangeeta (Sangeetha) revealed that her turmoil commenced when she declared her intention to wed a Muslim man named Rasheed (Rashid). Her father PV Bhaskaran is the Uduma Area Committee member of the CPM in Kasaragod.

“You can practice communism outside the house. It has no place inside our family. If you won’t obey, then I will kill you. I know the ways to come out of jail unscathed,” she recounted how her father threatened her.

Sangeeta has been reportedly suffering at home, especially after she was disabled below the waist in an accident. According to her, she is under house arrest and has not

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