The State police probe into the alleged Ayush appointment fraud accusation centred around Health Minister Veena George’s office seems to assume the proportions of a Byzantine plot involving political agent provocateurs and some sections of the media.
The police said on Tuesday that the motives involved confidence trickery, impersonation, illegal profiteering and putting the government on the defence. They were probing the point where multiple interests overlapped. The police were reticent to state whether the entire episode smacked of a conspiracy involving a political agent provocateur and some sections of the media as suggested by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in Kannur last week.
Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] State secretary M. V. Govindan appeared to fill the information void. He claimed in Kannur that a dubious few prompted the complainant to drop the name of the Health Minister’s office to provide ammunition for the evening television commentariat to target the government. Mr. Govindan said the police would get to the conspirators.
