Sexual Harassment Case Against Former Kerala Chief Minister Chandy, CBI Visits Cliff House

Thiruvananthapuram. The CBI team probing the sexual assault case against five Congress leaders, including former Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, on Tuesday inspected the Cliff House, the official residence of the Kerala Chief Minister, in search of evidence. . State Congress leaders, including Chandy, are accused of sexually abusing a woman, the main accused in the solar panel scam. Sources said that the team reached the Cliff House with special permission from the state government. Television channels broadcast visuals of a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team inspecting the cliff house. The victim had alleged that senior Congress leaders misbehaved with her when he (Chandy) was the chief minister.

Last month, the team had inspected the MLA Hostel, where some former Congress MLAs had allegedly misbehaved with the victim. Sources said the complainant woman was also with the CBI team when it conducted the inspection. The Left government last year filed a sexual harassment case filed by a woman accused in the solar scam against five Congress leaders—Chandy, party MPs—KC Venugopal, Hibi Eden, Adoor Prakash, former ministers AP Anil Kumar and AP Abdullah Kutty. investigation was recommended. Abdullah Kutty was earlier in Congress and is now in BJP.

Chandy has said that he has not done anything wrong and is ready to face any investigation. Cases against six, including Chandy, were registered over the years on a complaint by a woman accused in the multi-crore solar panel scam during the previous UDF government and probe by the Crime Branch police that she was sexually assaulted by them in 2012. had gone.

In the solar scam, the two main accused, a man and a woman, had allegedly duped investors of lakhs of rupees by promising to install solar panels for them. The two primary suspects were arrested in October 2013 and sentenced to three years in prison on December 16, 2016. Chandy and other Congress leaders were later accused of soliciting money and having sex.