Gold smuggling accused writes to PM, seeks CBI probe into Kerala govt’s role

In her letter to the Prime Minister, Suresh, who is now employed as Director (Women Empowerment & CSR) with Palakkad-based NGO Highrange Rural Development Society (HRDS India), said the state government was involved in the case and used her as a scapegoat for its benefit.

“I would like to bring forth to your kind notice that the person who actually committed this heinous smuggling is in fact an IAS officer Shivashankar (principal secretary of the Chief Minister of Kerala). Due to the higher rank of the officials, few employees like me had to withstand the worst of this scam. I was simply obeying the orders of my line managers and doing this through the UAE consulate diplomatic channel and had no say in the matters,” she said.

She alleged that the Chief Minister’s family members were also directly involved in the scam. “We can’t compare such a scam with any other scams executed in India like Bofors, Vedanta, Lavalin or 2G Spectrum. The gravity of the scam is more… It was jointly executed with other country’s consulate against India. CBI investigation is mandatory to find out the truth,’’ she wrote, adding that the Customs and NIA, which probed into the smuggling case, were trying to manipulate the case.

In her letter to the Prime Minister, written in the letter pad of her employer HRDS India, Suresh said, “The NGO has supported her by all means.”

Suresh alleged that the state government has been harassing her, her relatives, her advocate and the NGO after she submitted a statement under Section 164 of the IPC before a court.