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Congress wide caput K.C. Venugopal has alleged that Minister M.B. Rajesh’s connection successful the Assembly revealed the State Government’s intent to implicate the Tantri successful the Sabarimala golden theft case, stemming from hostility implicit his basal connected the Sabarimala temple women’s introduction issue.
He was speaking to the media aft a warfare of words erupted betwixt the treasury and absorption benches successful the Assembly during the Budget league earlier successful the time implicit the Tantri’s arrest. Mr. Venugopal was successful Kochi to sojourn the pistillate recuperating astatine a backstage infirmary pursuing country to region a surgical instrumentality near wrong her abdomen.
“We ne'er said earlier the verdict that the apprehension was incorrect oregon that the Tantri should not beryllium arrested. Only aft the verdict did we inquire whether it was to settee aged scores. Was it to retaliate against the Tantri for his basal connected women’s introduction into the Sabarimala temple? Even the Tantri himself has raised that question,” Mr. Venugopal said. He pointed retired that the aforesaid court, portion considering bail applications of 2 erstwhile Devaswom Board presidents, had taken a antithetic view.
He described the minister’s connection arsenic “an effort to forestall nonaccomplishment of face.” “When the Tantri was arrested, we had said it should not beryllium to shield the minister. If an apprehension is made, it indispensable beryllium backed by credible evidence. We ne'er objected to arresting someone, per se. But here, it was the tribunal itself that said successful its bail bid that determination was ‘not adjacent an iota of evidence,’” helium observed.
“So wherefore is the curate trying to beryllium otherwise? When the tribunal says determination is nary grounds against the Tantri, wherefore does the curate importune the tribunal is wrong? What is the volition down that? That is wherever we fishy a conspiracy. We judge it reflects hostility toward the Tantri. Otherwise, wherefore would the curate criticise a tribunal verdict?” Mr. Venugopal asked.
