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Palakkad MLA, Rahul Mamkootathil appeared to look accrued ineligible jeopardy precocious Wednesday with the constabulary registering a First Information Statement (FIR) based connected a 2nd rape ailment against the legislator.
Officials said the constabulary person constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) nether Dy.SP. Sajeevan to probe the case. Thiruvananthapuram City Police Commissioner, Thomson Jose, volition supervise the investigation.
The 2nd probe comes against the ineligible backdrop of Mr Mamkootathil moving the Principal Sessions Court, Thiruvananthapuram, for anticipatory bail successful a comparable lawsuit registered by the Nemom constabulary past Thursday. Notably, the tribunal has posted the lawsuit for further proceeding connected Thursday.
Officials said constabulary traced the email to its sender, who identified herself arsenic a 23-year-old non-resident Keralite. They said she signalled willingness to property rape charges against Mr Mamkootathil, including causing bodily wounded and amerciable detention.
The SIT has reportedly requested that the complainant question the court’s consent to grounds her connection earlier a pistillate magistrate, irrespective of the judicial officer’s jurisdiction and successful camera, nether Section 182 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023. The SIT besides includes cyber forensic experts for verifying the backstage communications betwixt the alleged unfortunate and the accused.
On Tuesday, successful an explosive email to KPCC president Sunny Joseph, MLA, the woman, who did not divulge her identity, accused Mr Mamkootathil of befriending her done societal media and raping her aft inviting her to a edifice connected the pretext of discussing their prospective marital alliance. Mr. Joseph subsequently forwarded the ailment to the State Police Chief Revada Chandrasekhar.
The emailer alleged that Congress person Feni Ninan, Mr Mamkootathil’s subordinate and UDF campaigner successful the eighth ward of the Adoor Municipality, had taken her to the edifice wherever Mr Mamkootathil allegedly raped her successful 2023.
Mr Ninan has denied the accusation and petitioned the State Police Chief (SPC) to analyse the email’s “questionable provenance, veracity and its suspicious timing”.
The emailer besides told Mr Joseph that she felt impelled to uncover her ordeal successful the nationalist domain aft the KPCC “repeatedly denied and sat on” a bid of accusations of intersexual misconduct against Mr. Mamkootathil.
The writer besides requested that Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Vadra guarantee that Mr Mamkootathil holds nary nationalist relation that involves interacting with women and children. His removal, she wrote, would empower different alleged survivors to question justness without fearfulness of retribution.
The emailer stated that the societal media persecution of Mr. Mamkootathil’s alleged victims had precluded her truthful acold from seeking justice. She besides wrote that her “details were disposable with the Crime Branch”.
