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The Kerala High Court connected Monday extended till Thursday the interim extortion from apprehension to expelled Congress person Rahul Mamkootathil, MLA, who had been charged with rape and forced abortion.
A lawsuit successful this respect had been registered by Nemom Police, Thiruvananthapuram. A Bench of Justice K. Babu posted the substance for proceeding connected Thursday.
Mr. Mamkootathil had approached the High Court with an anticipatory bail plea, earlier this month. In the bail plea, helium claimed that determination was admittedly a consensual narration with the pistillate who levelled the rape and forced termination allegations. He approached the tribunal with the anticipatory bail plea aft the Principal Sessions Judge, Thiruvananthapuram, dismissed his bail petition.
He had contended that his governmental opponents wanted to currency successful connected the situation, successful presumption of the section assemblage polls (that concluded connected December 11). The allegation of miscarriage and forced termination is false, helium said successful his plea.
Second case
Meanwhile, the State authorities connected Monday approached the High Court, challenging the anticipatory bail that the Principal Sessions Judge, Thiruvananthapuram, had granted him successful a 2nd rape lawsuit helium had been charged with. A Bench of Justice Viju Abraham past granted clip to Mr. Mamkootathil to record objections against the government’s plea and posted the substance for proceeding aft after the court’s impending vacation.
As per the alleged victim, a pistillate studying extracurricular Kerala, Mr. Mamkootathil contacted her done messaging app Telegram, gave her mendacious assurance of matrimony and took her to an isolated location stay-like gathering erstwhile she was assaulted and raped, causing her grievous injuries. The tribunal had granted him bail, citing lack of prima facie materials linking him to the alleged offence.
The authorities approached the High Court, contending that the proceedings tribunal failed to admit the gravity of the allegations and the materials collected during the probe, which it said established his relation successful the non-bailable offence.
