Latest News | Ex-CPI Leader Faces Cruelty Case After Joining BJP

Alappuzha (Kerala), Dec 3 (PTI) A former CPI (M) leader who quit the party last week to join the BJP, has been booked for cruelty based on a complaint by his wife, police said on Tuesday.

A case under section 498A (husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty) of the IPC has been registered against Bipin C Babu and his mother in connection with an alleged incident of dowry related harassment a few years ago, an officer of Kareelakulangara police station said.

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The dispute was settled between the couple back then with the intervention of the Left party, the officer said.

The complaint by his wife -- a CPI(M) supporter -- came after Babu, a member of the Left party's Alappuzha area committee and member of the district panchayat representing the Krishnapuram division, joined the BJP on November 30.

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Bipin, after joining the BJP, had alleged that the CPI(M) had lost its secular character.

"A few communal forces are leading the party now and it has become an outfit of a particular section," he had said.

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