The Kerala High Court on Thursday, October 26, 2023, issued notice to All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary K.C. Venugopal, MP, on a petition filed against the the Thiruvananthapuram Chief Judicial Magistrate Court order accepting a report of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) which gave a clean chit to the Congress leader in a sexual assault case lodged by the prime accused in the solar cheating case.
Justice C.S. Dias issued notice when the petition filed by the victim came up for hearing. According to her, the magistrate court should not have gone deep into the facts and circumstances of the case at this stage. From the materials produced before the court by the investigating agency there are sufficient evidence to make out a prima facie case agains Mr. Venugopal. When a prima facie case is established, the magistrate had no authority to reject her petiton objecting to the CBI’s report. She alleged that the Magistrate court has exceeded his jurisdiction and powers in dismissing her “protest petition” against the report. The magistrate had discussed about the merits of the case in his order.
