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The Congress connected Tuesday (December 23, 2025) levelled sedate charges against Kerala Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) successful transportation with the ongoing peculiar probe squad (SIT) probe into the Sabarimala golden nonaccomplishment case and accused it of interfering with the probe done intermediaries.
While talking to reporters successful Thiruvananthapuram, Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan alleged that 2 IPS officers were assigned by the CMO to “exert aggravated pressure” connected the SIT that probes the case.
He said the Opposition was refraining from naming the officers acrophobic “only retired of propriety”, but warned that helium would beryllium compelled to disclose their identities if they did not halt exerting unit upon investigating officers.
Stressing the request for a sincere and impartial investigation, helium said the Opposition was intimately monitoring the probe and would constituent retired immoderate lapses successful the investigation.
Mr. Satheesan said the probe would present determination guardant successful the close absorption lone due to the fact that of the High Court's intervention. He clarified that the Opposition had not truthful acold expressed immoderate deficiency of assurance successful the SIT and said helium expected “the existent culprits” to beryllium brought earlier the instrumentality astatine the earliest.
Mr. Satheesan said the Opposition would hold for a fewer much days to measure however the SIT probe progresses and cautioned that the concern should not scope a signifier wherever a CBI probe becomes inevitable.
He alleged that it was lone due to the fact that the probe was nether tribunal scrutiny that it was moving guardant to immoderate extent. Otherwise, helium claimed, the probe would person “gone nowhere.”
“Had the probe remained wholly nether the government's control, cardinal accused specified arsenic erstwhile TDB (Travancore Devaswom Board) chiefs A. Padmakumar and N. Vasu would not person been arrested,” helium said.
The SIT is probing the nonaccomplishment of golden and related complaints. Several persons, including 2 past presidents of the TDB, person been arrested successful this regard. The SIT precocious told a Vigilance tribunal that Pankaj Bhandari of Smart Creations and Ballari-based jeweller Govardhan Roddam played a cardinal relation successful a conspiracy to bargain golden from artefacts of the Sabarimala temple. The SIT connected Friday arrested some Mr. Bhandari and Mr. Roddam.
