KOCHI, April 19 -- The Kerala Government led by Pinarayi Vijayan of the CPI(M) which is in the last days of its five-year tenure is suffering setbacks after setbacks from the judiciary as well as Lok Ayukta which has forced the party commissars to press the panic button.
On Friday, the Kerala High Court quashed two FIRs registered by the Crime Branch of the State Police against 'unnamed officials' of the Enforcement Directorate for allegedly coercing the accused in gold smuggling case to give false and incriminating statements implicating the chief minister and other functionaries in the party.
The FIR stated that the ED officials forced Swapna Suresh and Sandeep Nair, the gold smuggling kingpins to give statements blaming chief minister ...