Palakkad: A 21-year-old woman has filed a police complaint alleging she was raped inside the ruling CPI(M)'s area committee office at Cheruplassery in Kerala, following which a probe has been started.
A case was registered after police found a newborn girl last Saturday abandoned on a roadside. They traced her mother, who said the baby was born after she was allegedly raped by a student activist inside the party office 10 months ago, police sources said.

The woman claimed in her complaint that she went to the party office for preparation of a college magazine, when the incident happened. A local CPI(M) leader said the woman is a SFI activist and her family has close links with the party. The party would probe if such an incident has taken place in its office and police also should conduct a "truthful" and "scientific" probe, he added. Police officials are yet to record statement of the man, who is being accused.