India, June 4 -- With questions being raised about the functioning of the State Women's Commission after the alleged dowry death of Vaishnavi Hagawane in Pune, women leaders of the opposition Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) on Tuesday met governor C P Radhakrishnan and complained about the Commission's functioning. The women demanded that the Vaishnavi case be transferred to the CID and non-political persons be appointed to the Women's Commission.

The Commission is currently headed by NCP leader Rupali Chakankar, who is drawing flak for the lack of action on the complaint of the Hagawane family's elder daughter-in-law, Mayuri Jagtap, last February. Mayuri too had claimed that she was being harassed by the family for dowry. Opposition lead...