Ice cream Parlour case: SIT finds no evidence against Kunhalikkutty

KOZHIKODE: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) have concluded their probe into the charge that the case pertaining to the sensational ice cream parlour sex abuse scandal, in which State Industries Minister PK Kunhalikutty was allegedly involved, had been sabotaged, by saying there was no evidence to prove the allegation.


Giving clean chit to Kunhalikutty, SIT constituted last year to probe the charge that he and others had derailed the case using threats and bribes, submitted its report in the First Class Judicial Magistrate Court in Kozhikode saying that they were writing off the case in the absence of evidences.


The report said that there was no substance in the allegations raised by businessman KA Rauf, a close relative and former aide of Kunhalikutty against him, on the basis of which the probe was launched.


Rauf had said that Kunhalikutty had bribed two former judges of the Kerala High Court - K Narayana Kurup and Thankappan – to earn favourable verdicts. The businessman had said that he himself had paid bribes to several of them for Kunhalikutty when he was his close associate.


The investigation team had interrogated nearly 150 people, including Kunhalikutty; K. Thankappan and K. Narayana Kurup; the former Advocate General M. K. Damodaran; the former State Attorney P.C. Iype; and the former Kozhikode Mayor P. Dasan. Twelve major allegations made by Rauf were investigated.