One day after Customs linked the Chief Minister of Kerala to the gold smuggling case, Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday harshly criticized the BJP-led central government and said “this land will not blame us, no matter what you do.” In a forceful response, CM Vijayan said: “All I have to say …
Read More »Kerala Gold Smuggling Case: CM Secretary Appears Before ED
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s additional private secretary, CM Raveendran, appeared before the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) on Thursday for questioning in connection with the gold smuggling case. Raveendran has already been summoned four times by the Central agency. He was cited for the first time last month but was …
Read More »Kerala Court orders Customs to take action against agents who leaked Swapna Suresh’s statement
File photo of the accused Kerala gold smuggling of Swapna Suresh. The order came while a petition filed by Suresh to initiate contempt proceedings against the officers who leaked the statement and the media that published it was being considered. CNN-News18 Thiruvananthapuram Last update: December 1, 2020 4:31 PM IST …
Read More »Kerala police begin investigation into leaked voicemail of accused of gold smuggling
Kerala police on Thursday ordered an investigation after Swapna Suresh, the main defendant in the Kerala gold smuggling case, in an alleged voicemail claim that the Directorate of Enforcement was pressuring her to appoint the minister in chief Pinarayi Vijayan in the scandal with the incentive to make it approving. …
Read More »The WhatsApp chats of IAS officer M Sivasankar summoned for safekeeping
Gold smuggling case: Suspended IAS officer M Sivasankar was arrested on Wednesday. Thiruvananthapuram: Suspended IAS officer M Sivasankar’s WhatsApp chats with the key defendant in the Kerala gold smuggling case, Swapna Suresh, were summoned today by the Directorate of Enforcement in a special court as the investigating agency sought custody …
Read More »M Sivasankar: IAS officer M Sivasankar detained by the Directorate of Enforcement | Thiruvananthapuram News
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Direction of execution detectives on Wednesday took the IAS officer M Sivasankar in custody, after the Kerala High Court denied an advance bond to the officer, in connection with the gold smuggling case Investigation. The currently suspended officer was detained by the Vanchiyoor Ayurvedic Hospital agency in the …
Read More »Kerala HC prevents Customs from detaining IAS officer in gold smuggling case
The Kerala High Court on Monday suspended the arrest of former Prime Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s secretary M Sivasankar, a senior official in the Administrative Service of India, until October 23 in the gold smuggling case. Sivasankar, who was admitted to a hospital on Friday, moved the HC saying that the …
Read More »Opposition protests against Kerala minister are anti-Quran, says CPM
Written by Shaju Philip | Thiruvananthapuram | Updated: September 19, 2020 7:59:32 am With Congress and its ally Indian Union Muslim League mounting their protests against Jaleel, the ICC (M) secretary of state, Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, in his weekly column in the party daily Deshabhimani, called the protest against the minister …
Read More »CM Pinarayi Vijayan presents a 100-day action plan for Kerala before Onam
A day before ‘Thiru Onam’, the most auspicious of Kerala’s 10-day harvest festival, Prime Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday presented a 100-day action plan with 100 programs aimed at raising the image of the government that has suffered a dent. after the gold smuggling case surfaced in the state. “This …
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