Former Governor of Mizoram, Kummanam Rajasekharan, who is also a former president of the Kerala BJP observed a day’s fast on Tuesday at Pathanamthitta in protest against rapes, gold smuggling scams, corruption charges and breakdown of law and order in the State.
“Kerala hangs its head in shame. Covid-19 patients are raped by ambulance drivers and health workers who are supposed to save them. There is no guarantee for the lives of sincere officials who wage war against corruption and nepotism. The State is no more the God’s Own Land as it has been described earlier,” said Rajasekharan while launching his fast in company of hundreds of party workers.
Even as Rajasekharan was addressing the party cadre at Pathanamthitta, a heavy posse of policemen charged into the residence of Muslim League MLA M C Kamarudin in Kasaragod district in northern Kerala in connection with a series of cheating cases filed against the law maker.
The case is that Fashion Jewellery of which Kamarudin is the chairman cheated investors to the tune of Rs 136 crore. The managing director of the showroom is absconding.
Adding to the woes of the State administration, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence has found that gold smuggling syndicate operating from Kozhikode Airport has succeeded in getting their own henchmen employed as contract workers inside the airport.
This is being done to make it easy for them to bring out the smuggled gold reaching the airport via international flights, said the DRI report.
On Sunday, two staff members of the DRI had come under attack from gold couriers when the former tried to take into custody a group of people engaged in smuggling.
Meanwhile investigation agencies including the Narcotics Control Bureau are on their way to Kerala to nab politically influential people into custody in connection with the recent drug seizure at Bangalore.