Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala): Crucial days are ahead for Kerala Education Minister V. Sivankutty, as the Kerala Government has approached the Supreme Court seeking a reversal of the High Court decision which dismissed a plea for withdrawal of a case registered against six Left legislators in 2015 for indulging in vandalism in the assembly.
The petition has been listed in the apex court for Tuesday and if the court upholds the High Court's ruling that all the then six legislators should face trial, then Sivankutty could be in trouble, and could well see his position as a State Minister untenable. The High Court in September last year dismissed their plea and upheld the Chief Judicial Magistrate court's order, which asked all the accused to face trial. The list of accused includes former State Ministers -- E.P. Jayarajan, K.T. Jaleel and then four legislators who were identified as causing damage to properties inside the floor of the assembly on March 13, 2015.
The others include K. Kunju Ahamed, C.K. Sadasivan and K. Ajith, who are now not legislators and so is Jayarajan, while Jaleel is a legislator now. It was following Sivankutty's letter to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan seeking the case should be withdrawn, the government decided to do the same, even though a Crime Branch police probe had found out there were a lot of wrongs committed by the then opposition, which presently rules the government.
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