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Inaugurating the march, Mahila Morcha state president Sobha Surendran urged Defence Minister A K Antony to clarify his stand on the repeated assertion of the victim that Kurien was involved in the case. "We are keen to hear the moral position of Antony on the issue," she said. The Mahila Morcha leader also demanded that Kurien be subjected to scientific examination to bring out the truth in the light of the charge against him by the victim.