Coimbatore, March 21 -- Working president of Congress in Tamil Nadu Mayura Jayakumar Thursday appeared before the CB-CID probing the Pollachi sexual harassment case and gave a statement denying any link with the key accused.

He appeared before the CB-CID after it issued summons to him following a claim by Thirunavukarasu, among the four accused arrested in the case, that he was not in Pollachi on February 12, the day when the 19-year old woman was subjected to harassment, and had visited the Congress leader here.

Jayakumar told reporters here he gave a written statement to the CB-CID explaining that he had no link with Thirunavukarasu.

While under four-day custody of CB-CID since Friday last, Thirunavukarasu had in his statement claime...