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The Kerala Police person registered a archetypal accusation study (FIR) against Palakkad MLA Rahul Mamkootathil aft a pistillate accused him of recurrent intersexual exploitation, falsely promising marriage, coerced aesculapian termination of pregnancy, verbal abuse, decease threats and assorted violations of the IT Act.
The constabulary fast-tracked the lawsuit aft the pistillate and her household met Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan astatine the latter’s bureau successful the Secretariat connected Thursday (November 27, 2025).
Subsequently, a squad led by District Police Chief, Thiruvananthapuram Rural, K.S. Sudarshan, recorded the woman’s statement.
The constabulary registered the FIR astatine the Valiamala constabulary presumption aboriginal Friday (November 28, 2025) and aboriginal transferred the lawsuit to the Nemom constabulary station, bringing the high-profile probe nether the jurisdiction of Thiruvananthapuram City Police Commissioner Thomson Jose.
In-camera deposition
A elder authoritative said the constabulary would record a petition successful the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, Neyyattinkara, seeking to grounds the woman’s connection in-camera nether Section 183 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS).
He said the charges against Mr. Mamkootathil see rape, obtaining intersexual consent done deceitful means, perchance by holding distant a mendacious committedness of marriage, and coercing a pistillate into terminating her pregnancy, careless of the gestational period.
Drugs Act violation
The constabulary were besides investigating Mr. Mamkootathil connected the charges of obtaining medicines causing miscarriage without a prescription, employing an acquaintance to present the pills to the pistillate and coercing her to devour the drug, portion helium allegedly watched connected a video telephone to guarantee that the pistillate complied.
The constabulary person named Mr. Mamkootathil’s acquaintance, 1 Joby Thomas, a businessperson successful Pathanamthitta, arsenic the 2nd accused successful the case.
The charges against some included usurpation of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act and provisions of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, which protects the reproductive rights of women, including those extracurricular the ambit of registered marriages.
An researcher said the instrumentality mandated that lone doctors could administer termination pills aft respective tests, including an ultrasound scan. Moreover, the over-the-counter merchantability oregon organisation of termination pills without a medicine puts the supplier successful ineligible jeopardy.
Forensics relation
Officials said the constabulary would question the assistance of the State Forensic Sciences Laboratory to authenticate whether the audio messages attributed to Mr. Mamkootathil connected societal and accepted media were genuine oregon had been fabricated and tampered with to discredit the legislator. The audio forensic results would pass the IT space successful the case.
The constabulary would besides prehend the mobile phones allegedly progressive successful the transgression and get a Section 65B certificate nether the Indian Evidence Act to admit them arsenic grounds successful court. They would besides employment the Cyber Forensics Wing to scrutinise timestamps and formatting to manipulate integer evidence, beryllium instrumentality ownership, and analyse metadata arsenic portion of the rapidly unfolding investigation.
Party suspension
The Congress had suspended Mr. Mamkootathil from its superior rank successful August aft accusations of serial intersexual misconduct, stalking and predation, including allegedly incriminating dependable clips and substance messages, went viral connected societal and accepted media, arguably putting the Opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) connected the defensive.
The enactment had besides removed Mr. Mamkootathil from his station arsenic State Youth Congress president.
