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Palakkad MLA and former Youth Congress State president Rahul Mamkootathil was taken into custody from a edifice successful Palakkad astir midnight connected Saturday (January 10, 2026) pursuing a caller ailment of intersexual maltreatment filed by a pistillate against him.
Mr. Mamkootathil, already facing intersexual maltreatment charges based connected complaints by 2 different women, had earlier obtained interim extortion from apprehension from the tribunal successful those cases.
In a melodramatic and discreet cognition astir midnight connected Saturday (January 10, 2026), a constabulary squad led by the Shoranur DySP took Mr. Mamkootathil into custody from Hotel KPM Regency successful Palakkad.
The edifice had earlier figured successful a contention during the Assembly byelection, erstwhile the constabulary raided the rooms of 2 Congress women leaders connected November 5 midnight, triggering a bitter governmental quality betwixt the Congress and the CPI(M).
Around midnight connected Saturday, the constabulary squad amazed Mr. Mamkootathil by waking him from his country fig 2002 and placing him nether arrest. Though the MLA resisted, insisting connected the beingness of his lawyer, the constabulary proceeded with the arrest.
He was subsequently taken to Pathanamthitta, wherever helium is to beryllium questioned and produced earlier a magistrate.
The constabulary sealed the country successful which Mr. Mamkootathil had been staying astatine Hotel KPM Regency. Police sources said the investigating squad intended to analyse his laptop and mobile phones arsenic portion of efforts to cod technological grounds successful the cases registered against him.
