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The Kerala High Court has directed the Principal Secretary of the Industries department, A.P.M. Mohammad Hanish, to comply with the judgement successful a writ petition that had challenged the denial of authorisation for a CBI probe into the alleged corruption successful the import of earthy cashew into Kerala betwixt 2006 and 2015.
The cashew was imported by Kerala State Cashew Development Corporation (KSCDC). The judgement successful the writ petition had directed Mr. Hanish to reconsider the denial of authorisation successful accordance with the observations made by the court.
The contiguous bid was passed successful a contempt petition filed by Kadakampally Manoj of Kollam pursuing the denial of authorisation for the CBI probe by the State.
The CBI probe was to analyse the relation of R. Chandrasekharan, erstwhile president of the Kerala State Cashew Development Corporation, and P.A. Ratheesh, erstwhile managing manager of the corporation, successful the corruption case.
In the contempt case, the tribunal had antecedently asked Mr. Hanish to look successful idiosyncratic and to comply with the directions successful the writ petition. It had besides quashed the bid by Mr. Hanish denying authorisation to the CBI probe. Mr. Hanish had preferred an entreaty to a Division Bench of the tribunal against the bid of idiosyncratic appearance, which was granted.
Justice A. Badharudeen, considering the contempt plea connected Wednesday, observed that adjacent though the Division Bench had directed that Mr. Hanish’s idiosyncratic quality beryllium dispensed with, the bid made to comply with the judgement from the writ petition was inactive successful force. The tribunal stated that nary enactment was obtained connected that order, and it was yet to beryllium executed; therefore, Mr. Hanish was directed to positively comply with the bid by the tribunal successful the contempt plea, successful accordance with the observations made successful the writ petition by June 19.
