CBI Gives Clean Chit To Former Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy In Sexual Exploitation Case

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has submitted a report in the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court in Thiruvananthapuram giving clean chit to former Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy in the sexual exploitation allegation levelled by a prime accused woman in the sensational solar scam.

The CBI submitted the referral report in the court here on Tuesday, sources told Press Trust of India.

Last year, the CBI had taken over the investigation into cases against Oommen Chandy, former Union minister KC Venugopal and other politicians related to allegations of sexual exploitation by the accused woman.

The cases against the six persons, including Oommen Chandy, were registered over the last few years and investigated by the Crime Branch of the Kerala Police based on a complaint by the woman, an accused in the multi-crore solar panel scam during the UDF government, that she was sexually exploited by them in 2012.

The CPI(M)-led Kerala government had recommended a CBI inquiry into the cases in early 2021.

The opposition Congress had dubbed the move as "politically motivated", saying the LDF government could not find anything against the party leaders and took the decision as elections were around the corner.

Sources told Press Trust of India that the CBI probe has found that there was no basis for the woman's allegation against Oommen Chandy as there was no evidence to prove that she had gone to the official residence of then Chief Minister on that particular day.

The CBI has also found that it was a fabricated case, the sources further told Press Trust of India.

In a letter to the police commissioner on July 19, 2013, the woman had levelled charges of sexual misconduct and corruption against several Congress and UDF leaders, including Chandy, some of his ministers and two former Union ministers.
 

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