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Judicial probe of ED by CPI-M not in federal spirit, says BJP

  •   Tue, May 11 2021 03:22:45 PM

Thiruvananthapuram, May 11 (IANS): Union Minister of State for External Affairs V. Muraleedharan expressed concern in the manner in which Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan went ahead and appointed a Judicial Commission to probe the action taken by the Enforcement Directorate officials to pressurise two prime accused in the gold smuggling case to confess against Vijayan.

The government orders for the new judicial probe came out the other day and this probe was announced before the Assembly polls.

It will be headed by Justice (rtd) V.K. Mohan and the terms of reference also have been given.

Muraleedharan wrote in a Facebook post that if this is the way things are going to be taken forward by Vijayan, which is an attack on the federal structure, then it's not going to be looking good.

"If Vijayan is resorting to such things in the wake of the electoral victory, then things will not be looking good. It's using public money that Vijayan has appointed this Commission and that too to probe the events that took place under his government. He should think that apart from wasting public money there will be no good as there are numerous Commission reports which has not seen the light of the day and hence wasting public money during the present bad times does not augur good," said Muraleedharan.

Incidentally this new move comes at a time when in April, Vijayan suffered a setback after the Kerala High Court quashed the two FIRs registered against the Enforcement Directorate officials by the Crime Branch unit of Kerala police in the very same case.

The premise of this judicial probe is based on a complaint by two women police officials that they were allegedly being pressurised to testify that the gold smuggling case accused Swapna Suresh was coerced into giving statements implicating Vijayan in the case.

According to the two women police officials, who were providing security to Swapna Suresh, when under judicial custody, that they had heard of the ED pressurising her to name Vijayan.

Incidentally when Vijayan went about this by registering a case by the Crime Branch and the then announced judicial probe Union Ministers including Home Minister Amit Shah, Nirmala Sitharaman among others had slammed such move by the Kerala government.

 
  

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  • Valerian DSouza, Udupi/ Mumbai

    Tue, May 11 2021

    Action taken by E.D. will be counter probed by state appointed judicial commission😊 Hereafter this is going to happen in many states, specially if different Govt' s are ruling in centre and state. Country will be facing such new challenges!

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  • vishnu bhat, bangalore

    Tue, May 11 2021

    BJP is in no position to preach fairplay to anyone. It started the game of political vendetta by using central investigating agencies against opposition parties and their leaders. Shame that after lodging PC in Tihar for nearly a month, ED & CBI have not come with an iota of evidence against him - what can be more blatant missue of power? So too DKS. & many many more including J&K leaders. and BJP talks of federal structure!!

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  • Charles D'Mello, Pangala

    Tue, May 11 2021

    If ED was pressurizing to name Vijayan, there must be directions from BJP to do so. Hence they object to Judicial probe. BJP has been using central forces to defame most of the opposition party leaders at the time of crucial times during elections which is a known fact.

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  • Roshan, Mangaluru

    Tue, May 11 2021

    Lessons of federalism, nationalism, patriotism, governance and development, BJP is last place to learn from. Its proven beyond doubt after looking at the floating bodies of dead in rivers. Why it happens that way? Modi Govt want to hide deaths, sufferings, its failures etc., Affected people don't know how to handle it. First they are scared of covid risk, second hospitals charge with impunity to release dead, crematorium and ambulances too over burdened and try to make a quick bucks out of it. Lost is lost, dead are dead, so people desperately now started dumping dead in rivers. People now expect a new law enforced quickly, where the near one's of those who dumped bodies will bear massive fines. No solutions, only more pain. That's how it works with BJP each time.

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  • myna, mysuru

    Tue, May 11 2021

    What is this federal spirit of the BJP? Powerful forces can arm-twist officials and citizens to give statements that are untrue, is it? It shows BJP has no confidence in the Judiciary. A Judicial probe is an ideal solution for the truth to come out.

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  • Naresh, Kerala

    Tue, May 11 2021

    You have been misusing the Central Agencies against the MLAs / MPs / elected Governments who are against you..... Comrade Vijayan has showed the acumen and guts to pay you back in the same coin..... Gold smuggling allegation was one of your main campaign themes; but people were able to see through your game of trying to get a back-door entry into Kerala and has shown you the doors..... Still if you want to continue the campaign, do that, maximum you may try arresting him to shame him, but people won't vote you for sure....

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  • anthony, mangalore

    Tue, May 11 2021

    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. Total misuse of Centra Agencies to Harass, Intimidate and subdue opposition leaders and parties. God step by Kerala Govt that other states can follow to put an end to the misuse of these central agencies.

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