August 12, 2023 9:07 am
The single-judge bench granted an interim stay in the case against Bineesh Kodiyeri after it was argued that PMLA provisions cannot be invoked if the accused is not charged in any "predicate offence".
October 01, 2022 11:49 pm
Balakrishnan died of cancer in Chennai on Saturday. His body will be flown to Kannur on Sunday and cremated in Payyambalam the following evening.
October 01, 2022 10:00 pm
Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, a prominent CPI(M) leader from Kerala, had stepped down as party state secretary in the last week of August on account of poor health.
August 28, 2022 4:11 pm
MV Govindan Master, who is currently the minister for local self-government in Kerala, was made the CPM state secretary after incumbent Kodiyeri Balakrishnan stepped down on account of poor health.
August 12, 2022 4:05 pm
Referring to Governor Arif Mohammed Khan’s reluctance to give consent to renew 11 ordinances, CPI(M) state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan said the governor was ‘meddling’ in matters ‘in an undemocratic manner’.
April 09, 2022 10:30 pm
The ED said that though Bineesh “contends that he earns huge sums of money from various businesses and he earned huge income while he was in Dubai, no satisfactory materials are forthcoming to substantiate the same”.
March 04, 2022 5:25 pm
The Marxist party decided during last year’s Assembly elections not to field those who had been a legislator for two consecutive terms, and Pinarayi Vijayan has an all-new team of ministers in his second term as chief minister.
October 28, 2021 5:57 pm
Since his arrest on October 29, 2020, Bineesh, son of CPM Politburo member Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, has been charged under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and spent time in custody at the Parappana Agrahara prison in Bengaluru.
November 14, 2020 1:43 am
The issue has come as a shot in the arm for the Opposition Congress and BJP, but CPI(M) maintained that the party is not connected in any manner with Bineesh’s acts.
November 13, 2020 10:13 pm
Balakrishnan's step-down from the top party post comes in the wake of his younger son Bineesh Kodiyeri being arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on charges of funding illegal activities in a narcotics case in Bengaluru.