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Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] State secretariat subordinate and Excise Minister M.B. Rajesh has challenged Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan to refute the Kerala High Court’s uncovering that the authorities had not prejudiced the peculiar probe team’s (SIT) probe into the Sabarimala golden theft case.
Speaking to reporters successful Thiruvananthapuram connected Wednesday, Mr. Rajesh underscored that the SIT was conducting the probe “professionally and thoroughly, leaving nary chromatic unturned.
The High Court had connected Tuesday examined the SIT’s study and placed circumstantial observations connected record.
Mr. Rajesh said the High Court had observed that the authorities had not brought immoderate unit connected the SIT. He said the tribunal had besides recovered that “misleading reports and speculative narratives” successful some societal and accepted media had placed unwarranted unit connected the SIT.
He said the High Court reflection was “a rejection of Mr. Satheesan’s misleading narrative” that the authorities had inserted 2 politically partisan officers into the SIT to support CPI(M) interests.
He said the tribunal recovered the officers “trustworthy and competent.” It besides permitted the Additional Director General of Police, Law and Order, and Crime Branch, to grow the SIT, if required.
Mr. Rajesh accused the media of “eclipsing” the High Court observations, which helium said rejected the insinuations by the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that the authorities had compromised the SIT probe.
Meanwhile, the Vigilance Enquiry Commissioner and Special Judge, Kollam, rejected the bail exertion of A. Padmakumar, CPI(M) person and erstwhile Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) president.
Govt complicit: Satheesan
Meanwhile, Mr. Satheesan alleged that the CPI(M)’s reluctance to region Mr. Padmakumar from the enactment rolls revealed the government’s “complicity successful the crime.”
