The Pinarayi Vijayan-led Kerala Government is on the run from the hands of law, according to Anurag Thakur, Union Minister of State for Finance and Corporate affairs. He said the Kerala Government’s action of filing a criminal case against the officials of the Enforcement Directorate for allegedly threatening and recording a false statement of Swapna Suresh, the gold smuggling accused, is a hitherto unheard charge from a State Government against the Central Government’s agency.
The Crime Branch of the Kerala Government had filed a FIR against the ED officials probing the gold smuggling case that the latter forced and coerced Swapna Suresh that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan was involved in the crime. The FIR was based on a statement by women police cops who were guarding Swapna while she was custody of the ED in the latter’s office at Kochi.
But the FIR is silent about the ED officials who were involved in the case.
“This kind of allegation is unheard of in the history of India. The FIR against the ED is that they forced to extract a confession from the accused and make her name Pinarayi Vijayan as an accomplice in the case,” Thakur told The Pioneer in the sidelines of an electiob campaign in Perumbavoor on Saturday.