MALAPURRAM: A 68-year-old woman from Thirunnavaya in

has moved the state women's commission against her son who built a grave for her following a property dispute. The commission, which met in

on Tuesday, has ordered a probe and sought reports from the police and local panchayat.

The widowed woman, Mannuparambil Pathumma, has two sons and four daughters. She lives with her younger son Kunhu. Her older son, Siddhiq prepared the grave in the adjacent plot two months ago. He also arranged stones on the grave and a banner announcing that it was meant for his mother.



It wasn’t meant to defame mom; I had done it as an act of protest

: Son

Siddhiq, an engineer with a public sector company in

, told TOI he had prepared the grave because he believed his mother divided the property unfairly. "It is an act of protest. She is mentally unfit and is a puppet in the hands of my siblings," he said.

A neighbour and a relative said the property dispute between the brothers was an old one. Siddhiq was unhappy with his mother's decision to give 10 cents of land to Kunhu who works abroad.