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The Thiruvananthapuram Principal District and Sessions Court connected Monday reserved its verdict connected the anticipatory bail plea filed by Palakkad MLA Rahul Mamkootathil successful transportation with the 2nd rape lawsuit registered against him.
The tribunal granted the legislator impermanent extortion from apprehension until the verdict is delivered connected December 10. No coercive action, including arrest, tin beryllium taken against him until then.
The Crime Branch had booked Mr. Mamkootathil for allegedly raping a 23-year-old non-resident Keralite successful 2023.
According to the prosecution, the legislator allegedly befriended the subsister connected societal media, projected matrimony and persuaded her to conscionable him astatine a homestay wherever the battle is said to person taken place.
Meanwhile, the peculiar probe squad led by Assistant Inspector General, Coastal Police, G. Poonguzhali, submitted the survivor’s elaborate connection on with integer grounds earlier the court.
In her statement, the pistillate reportedly stated that she was subjected to a convulsive battle that near her with injuries each implicit her body. She alleged that the legislator continued the onslaught contempt her pleas to stop, and that she experienced panic attacks and breathing difficulties during the incident. Following the incident, helium told her that helium would not beryllium capable to wed her.
The subsister besides alleged that the MLA attempted to interaction her again, verbally abused her implicit the telephone and visited the vicinity of her location aggregate times, pressuring her to conscionable him. She said she refrained from coming guardant earlier owed to fearfulness of the consequences.
