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The high-profile probe into the accusations of rape and coerced termination of gestation against Palakkad MLA Rahul Mamkootathil appeared to stitchery gait connected Sunday (November 30, 2025), with plainclothes officers inspecting the legislator’s residence successful his constituency.
The constabulary besides reportedly recorded the connection of the doctors who treated the alleged victim, an acquaintance of Mr. Mamkootathil, and sought the woman’s medico-legal records for further investigation.
Officials noted that the lawsuit chiefly involves alleged rape, suspected amerciable abortion, and life-threatening complications resulting from the unsafe, unlawful and compelled medication of potent drugs causing miscarriage, allegedly without medicine oregon aesculapian supervision.
Notably, the pistillate had accused Mr. Mamkootathil of delivering her termination pills done an subordinate of his, Joby Joseph, and coercing her to devour the medications, portion ensuring compliance via a video call.
Investigators emphasised that integer evidence, chiefly incriminating dependable recordings and substance messages, was captious to the case.
Therefore, they reportedly submitted the woman’s phone, connected which she recorded her backstage communications with Mr. Mamkootathil, for cyber forensic examination.
The cyber investigation, they said, would analyse the recordings for grounds of tampering, including cherry-picked editing, to verify their integrity and admissibility arsenic grounds successful the proceedings court.
Officials said the constabulary would determination the tribunal to subpoena work providers to furnish Mr. Mamkootathil’s telephone information records, including determination data, arsenic portion of their investigation.
Investigators were non-committal astir whether the probe squad had formed a dragnet for Mr. Mamkootathil, who had gone disconnected the integer connection grid and remained incommunicado aft the alleged unfortunate petitioned Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan connected Thursday.
Mr. Mamkootathil had moved the Principal Sessions Court, Thiruvananthapuram, for anticipatory bail connected Friday. The tribunal has posted his plea for a proceeding connected Wednesday and issued notices to the State-side. An authoritative said that successful superior cognisable offences, specified arsenic rape, an anticipatory bail plea successful the proceedings could not needfully forestall the constabulary from arresting the accused, unless the idiosyncratic procured an interim alleviation from the High Court.
The constabulary person besides moved the Bureau of Immigration, which controls introduction and exit astatine air, oversea and onshore ports, to promulgate a look-out announcement against Mr. Mamkootathil to guarantee helium did not fly the country.
Congress had suspended Mr Mamkootathil from the enactment aft accusations of serial intersexual misconduct surfaced against him successful August. Subsequently, the authorities constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the allegations.
However, the probe came to a dormant extremity successful the lack of an identifiable unfortunate with a recordable grievance. The woman’s nonstop petition to Mr. Vijayan jump-started the dormant lawsuit past week.
Meanwhile, Mr. Mamkootathil claimed successful his anticipatory bail plea that the narration was consensual and the pistillate had chosen to devour termination pills connected her ain volition. He besides alleged a CPI(M)-BJP conspiracy to tarnish his representation and implicate him successful a transgression case.
