The alleged political and police “connections and financial shenanigans” of suspected fake antiquities dealer Monson Mavunkal have returned to weigh ominously on the ruling front and the Opposition.
The two-year-old case, pretty much erased from the public domain, burst onto cable news chyrons and across social media after the Crime Branch named Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president K. Sudhakaran and two ranking police officers as suspects in the alleged fraud.