The Kerala High Court had upheld the decree of compensation granted to a man who got injured in an explosive attack before the Sub Jail. It observed that the State has a reasonable duty to take.
‘Swapna arm-twisted to implicate CM’
A woman Civil Police Officer (CPO) has reportedly told the Crime Branch (CB) that she had witnessed Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials coercing UAE gold smuggling case accused Swapna Suresh to implicate Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in the crime.
The officer told the CB she was part of Swapna’s police escort detail.
The alleged arm-twisting had occurred in Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram.
The statement of the CPO emerged in the public domain on Monday. It seemed congruent with the CPI(M)’s narrative that the ED, at the Centre’s behest, wanted to foist a case on Mr. Vijayan to destabilise the government and rob it of its mandate.