Mariam Rasheeda rues her ‘lost reputation’

Harrowing reminiscences of torture within the custody of the Kerala Police refuse to go away Mariam Rasheeda, a Maldivian girl, three a long time after her incarceration and subsequent launch within the notorious ISRO espionage case.

She bursts out in rage over her misplaced popularity the second one refers the ISRO case to her. “There is no meaning for justice in this case. After 30 years of suffering, it does not mean anything to us. I lost my reputation at a young age. No compensation can restore it,” mentioned Ms. Rasheeda, who was portrayed as a spy girl within the ISRO espionage case, advised The Puucho from Maldives.

“Can the Supreme Court restore my reputation? What about the reputation of my family and my country, which was destroyed by the media and Kerala Police? Can any compensation restore the reputation of ISRO scientists Nambi Narayanan and Sasikumar,” asks Ms. Rasheeda in opposition to the backdrop of the Supreme Court order asking the CBI to look into the D.K. Jain report on Kerala Police framing the house scientists within the espionage case.

Her model

“A police officer cooked up the story when I resisted his advances at a hotel room in Thiruvananthapuram. He tried to hug me after sending Fauzia Hassan out of our hotel room. I pushed and slapped him. From there the spy case started,” she mentioned. She accused the police officer of utilizing the case for securing a promotion. “In the end, two innocent women (Ms. Rasheeda and Ms. Hassan) were portrayed as spies,” she mentioned.

“The Kerala Police wanted me to sign a document saying that the Maldivian government sent me to India as a spy to procure secrets for the ISI in Pakistan. The media carried the police version without any investigation. No one believed us. We suffered in the prison,” she mentioned.

“I came to Kerala for my daughter’s education. We did not do anything wrong. One should ask the Kerala Police why they arrested us,” she mentioned.