Ice-cream parlour sex: Kerala MLAs nearly come to blows

This irked IUML leaders,who said the former minister was not named as an accused in the case and she was making ‘untrue’ statements in the house.

CPI-M member V Sivankutty,who was siting next to her,moved towards IUML member Abdurahiman Randathani,who had disrupted her speech. However,timely intervention of Minister for Ports P Surendran Pillai averted a clash between these members,as others sitting nearby also joined them.

With mounting tension,Speaker K Radhakrishan adjourned the house for 25 minutes and called floor leaders of the two parties concerned for a discussion.

When the house re-assembled,Radhakrishnan asked members to observe discipline and said Shayalaja’s reference on Kunhalikuty will be removed from the Assembly records.

Later,replying to the motion,Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan said a Special police team had been set up to probe allegations of K A Rauf,a relative of Kunhalikutty,that he had helped the IUML leader scuttle the case by influencing victims and witnesses to retract their statements.

He said Rouf’s allegation that two Kerala High Court judges were bribed to get orders in Kunhalikutty’s favour will be brought to the Court’s notice and “It is for the High Court to examine that aspect”.

Certain matters under prevention of corruption Act had also come out against Kunhalikuty,he said,adding,vigilance probe will be ordered into these matters.

He said a television channel,which is chaired by IUML leader M K Munir and that telecast tapes of a sting operation related to the 2005 case,had been asked to submit all related CDs to enable further action to be taken in the case.

Munir had alleged that some vested interests were trying to create a wedge between him and Kunhalikutty and that “misleading” statements involving him had been coming out.

The case relates to allegations that surfaced in late 1990s that an ice cream parlour in Kozhikode was used as a cover to lure young women into sex rackets.

Kunhalikutty quit as Industries Minister in the UDF government in 2005 after one of the alleged victims dragged his name into the case. He did not figure as an accused. The case was later dismissed by the court for want of evidence against the accused in the case.

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