Attack on staff: NFPE stages march
KOLLAM,
October 21, 2016
A march organised by the NFPE at Vendar town on Thursday to register its protest against the attack on a woman postmaster.
Postal employees under the banner of the National
Federation of Postal Employees (NFPE) organised a march through Vendar
town near Kottarakara on Thursday to register their protest against the
attack on the woman postmaster (WPM) of the Vendar post office and the
failure of the police to take action on the complaint lodged by the WPM.
A
statement from the NFPE said that the incident took place earlier this
week. A man arrived at the post office to take possession of a
registered letter that was not in his name. He also did not have any
authorisation letter from the person in whose name the registered letter
had arrived. On these grounds the WPM refused handing over the letter
to the man who arrived.
This led to the man losing
his cool and in the process he prevented the WPM from discharging her
duties and allegedly attacked her before leaving the scene.
The
NFPE leaders allege that though a formal complaint was lodged by the
WPM with the local police there has been no follow-up action so far.
This had compelled postal employees to organise a protest march through
Vendar on Thursday evening.
A dharna held after the
march was inaugurated by the State convener of the NFPE women’s cell, C.
Lilly. NFPE leaders Mathews Mathew, S. Rajendrababu and K.
Gopalakrishan Nair among other spoke.
Source : http://www.thehindu.com