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The Principal Sessions Judge, Thiruvananthapuram, S. Nazeera, connected Thursday (December 4, 2025) rejected the anticipatory bail plea filed by Palakkad MLA Rahul Mamkootathil successful the rape and coerced termination of gestation lawsuit registered against him based connected a ailment filed by a pistillate acquaintance of his.
Following the tribunal determination connected the bail petition, KPCC president Sunny Joseph announced that Mr. Mamkootathil was expelled from the party.
Ms. Nazeera is yet to promulgate a ceremonial bid and reportedly stated successful unfastened tribunal that she had dismissed the petition, opening the mode for Mr. Mamkootathil’s imaginable arrest.
The tribunal allowed the State-side and defence 25 minutes to contiguous their arguments. It had heard the petition for astir an hr connected Wednesday.
The prosecution besides presented “additional material”, including doctors’ statements, medico-legal records, and preliminary forensic dependable investigation results, to bolster its lawsuit against the MLA.
The court, which conducted the proceedings successful camera, has dismissed Mr Mamkoothil’s superior plea that helium was the unfortunate of a governmental conspiracy and that his narration with the complainant, a pistillate acquaintance, was consensual.
Notably, successful his bail application, Mr Mamkootathil has denied the complaint that helium had coerced the pistillate to devour drugs, causing miscarriage against her will. He submitted that the complainant was joined and had consumed the termination pills of her ain volition. He besides accused the pistillate of obsessively signaling their backstage communications to implicate him.
The prosecution argued that the probe was astatine a nascent stage. If released connected bail, the State argued, the accused could jeopardise the investigation, utilizing his governmental heft to intimidate witnesses, destruct grounds and effort to power oregon endanger the “survivor”.
It contended that the suspect’s continued high-profile beingness successful nationalist could preclude different imaginable survivors from seeking justice. The prosecution besides alleged that Mr Mamkootathil was not cooperating with the investigation, and his existent whereabouts remained unknown.
The State-side besides submitted the police’s preliminary probe study successful a sealed cover. The prosecution highlighted that the lawsuit involves alleged repeated rape by a idiosyncratic successful a presumption of spot and authority, obtaining intersexual consent done deceitful means, suspected amerciable abortion, causing wounded and precipitating life-threatening complications resulting from the unsafe, unlawful, and compelled medication of potent drugs causing miscarriage, allegedly without medicine oregon aesculapian supervision.
The prosecution reportedly noted that the constabulary were besides investigating abetment of termination charges concerning the case.
Moreover, the prosecution stated that Mr. Mamkootathil’s custodial interrogation was imperative, fixed the gravity of the charges against him and his accomplices. The State-side said integer evidence, chiefly incriminating dependable recordings and substance messages, was captious to the case.
Hence, the constabulary had to prehend MLA’s integer devices, including mobile phones, tablets, and computers, to analyse audio recordings, place the parties involved, and observe immoderate tampering oregon deception.
The prosecution besides argued that imaginable charges successful the lawsuit 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 accepted marriage.
It besides stressed the request for the custodial probe of Joby Joseph Mamkootathil’s associate, who allegedly delivered the termination pills to the subsister and ensured that she consumed them, portion the MLA allegedly ensured compliance connected a video call.
