THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A day after The New Indian Categorical reported the disclosure of Swapna Suresh, key accused within the gold smuggling case, that Speaker P Sreeramakrishnan had invited her to a flat within the capital with “soiled intentions”, Opposition chief Ramesh Chennithala and Union minister Smriti Irani have sought the LDF authorities’s response to it. Nonetheless, the speaker, in a Fb put up, mentioned the central investigation companies stooping too low to enter offensive particulars in a doc as if they’re a part of the lady’s assertion will not be proper in a democratic nation.
Chennithala on Sunday expressed shock on the flip of occasions and alleged that regardless of having sturdy proof in opposition to the speaker, the central companies are usually not taking additional motion. He mentioned the state and the Central governments have resorted to the ‘thief vs police’ recreation. That’s why the LDF authorities introduced a judicial probe in opposition to the investigating companies on Friday.“I’m stunned why the companies haven’t carried out additional probe following the revelations made by Swapna? Folks have each proper to know what is going on within the gold smuggling case,” Chennithala mentioned in Pathanamthitta.
Addressing a street present in Kozhikode, Smriti Irani, Union Minister for Textiles and Girls and Little one Growth, mentioned the allegations raised in opposition to the speaker are “critical”. She added that leaders who’re within the public area ought to respect girls.On Sunday, TNIE had reported that Swapna had advised the Enforcement Directorate that the speaker tried to cozy as much as her with “soiled intentions”, in response to a doc submitted by the company earlier than the Excessive Court docket.
The accused had given the assertion on December 16 final yr at Attakulangara Girls’s Jail earlier than the deputy director, Enforcement Directorate. She had additionally mentioned Sreeramakrishnan used to name her to a flat at Pettah in Thiruvananthapuram which, in response to her, belonged to him however underneath another person’s identify.
Stung by the report, Sreeramakrishnan took to Fb claiming that the investigating companies have been making an attempt to defame the LDF and its leaders.
Sreeramakrishnan mentioned that when smuggling instances attain the doorways of the Opposition, they’re making an attempt to distract individuals’s consideration from these by revealing concocted statements in opposition to the federal government, chief minister and speaker to tarnish their picture. This can’t be accepted. “Faux campaigns are being unleashed by the investigating companies when the state goes to the polls. LIFE Mission and Kerala Infrastructure Funding Fund Board initiatives, which have caused revolutionary adjustments, are being focused by the probe companies,” mentioned Sreeramakrishnan.
