Another messy controversy centred around child-abuse-case convict and alleged fake antiquities dealer Monson Mavunkal appears to dog the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government.
Monson’s reported deposition, during an in-camera court proceeding on Monday, that the police coerced him to implicate Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president K. Sudhakaran in the child-abuse case at the peril of his family’s well-being sent ripples across the political spectrum.
The Congress reacted explosively to the debatable report. Mr. Sudhakaran said a conspiracy was afoot at the government level to turn the child-abuse-case victim against him. He said court records revealed no case against him, a fact confirmed by the Crime Branch. “The evidence of the plot to concoct a false testimony against me will emerge in the public domain soon,” he said.
