Kerala rape case | CBI inspects Cliff House
The Hindu
Solar case suspect and accuser also present at the official residence of Kerala CM.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inspected Cliff House, the official residence of the Chief Minister , here early Tuesday, May 3, 2022.
The CBI's examination was part of the agency's probe into the politically charged rape case involving an array of high-profile Congress leaders, notably former Chief Minister Oomen Chandy.
The woman, a one time speculator, widely perceived as the victim of a sex-for-political patronage racket during the previous United Democratic Front (UDF) government, accompanied the CBI investigators to the Cliff House.
She reportedly aided the CBI's attempt to reconstruct the chain of events linked to the alleged offence. She had named the Cliff House the scene of the purported crime allegedly involving Mr. Chandy.
The victim, an accused in the infamous Solar Scam case that rocked the Ommen Chandy government in 2014, had alleged that a galaxy of Congress leaders had extorted sexual favours from her, promising State support for her putative solar farm venture.
The CBI's case has provenance in a damning observation by the judicial commission appointed by Mr. Chandy to probe the scandal.
The Commission had recommended that the police probe those persons named by the woman as her sexual exploiters.