Newly elected Youth Congress State president, Rahul Mamkootathil, turned up at the Museum police station in Thiruvananthapuram on November 25 for “questioning” in connection with a high-profile criminal case relating to the alleged use of digitally counterfeited Election Commission of India (ECI) voter identity cards, ostensibly as proof to validate the identity of “phoney electors”, in the recently concluded online Youth Congress organisational elections.
Mr. Mamkoothathil told television journalists outside the station house that the police had summoned him as a witness under Section 161 of the Criminal Procedure Code and not as a suspect.
He said the police had called him at short notice. “I did not seek more time though I had other programmes because I have nothing to hide.”, Mr. Mamkootathil said.
