RSS says claims of role in Kerala software engineer’s suicide ‘baseless’, seeks impartial probe

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh on Monday described allegations that its members abetted the suicide of a 26-year-old software engineer in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram as “baseless” and demanded an independent investigation into the incident, ANI reported.

In a statement issued in Kottayam, RSS Dakshina Kerala joint general secretary KB Sreekumar said that such an inquiry would not only bring out the “real cause of his unnatural death, but also ensure innocence of RSS in this unfortunate incident.”

Anandu Aji was found dead by the staff of a tourist home in the Thampanoor area on Thursday evening. In an Instagram post on the same day, Aji had alleged that he was suffering from anxiety and depressive episodes following sexual abuse by members of the RSS.

“I am not angry with anyone except one person and an organisation,” read the letter posted on Aji’s Instagram account. “The organisation is RSS, which my father (a very good person) made me join. That is where I have suffered lifelong trauma, from the organisation and that person.”

He had alleged that he “was continuously sexually abused by a person”, whom he identified as “NM”, at the age of three to four years. The letter alleged that this person was a member of the RSS and the Bharatiya Janata Party, and was...

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