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Centre, Kerala spat likely as Crime Branch registers case against ED

  •   Fri, Mar 19 2021 03:18:28 PM

Thiruvananthapuram, Mar 19 (IANS): Even as a fierce electoral battle is on the cards in Kerala, another battle is shaping up between the Centre and Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.

The Crime Branch of the Kerala Police on Friday registered a case against the Enforcement Directorate based on a complaint by two women police officials that they were pressurised by the ED officials to testify that the prime accused Swapna Suresh was asked loaded questions and was pressurised to make her name Vijayan.

An FIR has been filed before a court in Kochi against Kochi ED officials on charges which include conspiracy and other non-bailable offences.

The Crime Branch police sought legal opinion on this and it got the green signal from the director general of prosecution - the body that advises the state government on all criminal matters.

Meanwhile the ED is also leaving nothing to chance and is expecting to take up the issue of seeking a total probe by the CBI into this.

Ever since Vijayan took over the election campaign, practically every day he makes it a point to say that the Kerala government under him is of a different breed and it has always taken on the Centre. This was especially so when it became the first state in the country to announce that the CAA won't be implemented there.

He also does not forget to raise the way the central probe agencies are out to tarnish the image of the government, whose only agenda is development of the state.

In the coming days, Vijayan is likely to play to the gallery by highlighting the way his police have taken on the central agencies.

 
  

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  • anthony, mangalore

    Fri, Mar 19 2021

    Its only matter of time before more and more states or private individuals will file cases against the central agencies given their partisan approach of handling cases with the sole aim of targetting political opponents and parties at the behest of the BJP/RSS.. The Country is painfully aware of how the Central Agencies are being misused to target opposition Leaders and Parties. This is the Ugly face of Modi's Maan Ki Baat and his innocent pretensions behind TV cameras in his repeated addresses to the Nation.Central Government Tax and Enforcement Agencies like Income Tax Dept and Enforcement Directorate have rarely raided BJP Leaders over the last six years. It will be nice to know through the media if any BJP leader has been issued any IT or ED Notice during the last six years. ED or IT departments would have known that large sums of money were transacted for luring of MLAs at the time of toppling of non-BJP governments but have turned a blind eye.

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