The CBI, which is probing the alleged sexual exploitation of a con girl concerned within the photo voltaic rip-off in Kerala, on Tuesday examined rooms on the legislators’ hostel which had been utilized by Congress lawmaker Hibi Eden.
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Eden, who represents the Ernakulam constituency within the Lok Sabha, is without doubt one of the alleged accused within the rape case and the incident occurred when Eden was a legislator within the state meeting.
The Central Bureau of Investigation, which took over the probe from the state police in August final yr, examined the rooms on the hostel together with the lady. The girl allegedly cheated buyers by promising photo voltaic options and shares in photo voltaic vitality tasks.
Apart from Eden, former chief minister Oommen Chandy, AICC basic secretary KC Venugopal, Congress MP Adoor Prakash, BJP nationwide vice-president AP Abdullakutty are amongst different alleged accused.
The alleged incidents befell from 2012 to13 when Congress was ruling the state.
Based on the advice of a judicial fee, which probed the photo voltaic rip-off, the earlier LDF authorities had allowed the police to register rape instances in opposition to the Congress leaders.
As the crime department probe didn’t make any headway, the complainant in 2020 wrote a letter to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan that the case is handed over to the CBI. Subsequently, the earlier CPI(M) authorities in January final yr beneficial a CBI probe into the case.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
