Land case: Involvement of RTI member to be probed, says Thiruvanchoor

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Home Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan Tuesday said the news regarding the intervention of RTI member to free opposition leader V S Achuthanandan from the land allotment case, will be examined.  

Thiruvanchoor told reporters that the government will look into the legal aspects in this matter and then take up the issue. If we find out that there is an excessive pressure on the investigating official, then it will be proceeded with.

North zone vigilance SP submitted a report claiming that Kerala Information Commissioner K Natarajan had tried to influence a probe to protect VS in the case.  Natarajan used to continuously phone DySP V G Kunju to persuade him to see that VS is not included in the list of accused in the case.

Natarajan, a former Indian Police Service officer, was appointed an information commissioner when VS was the chief minister.
Natarajan, according to reports, has been regularly speaking to the vigilance official after March this year and the conversation that was telecast on the TV channels here is believed to have taken place last month.

Asked to react to the news, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said it would be improper for him to make any comment on this without studying in detail.

Meanwhile, the vigilance has already launched an enquiry into the whole episode after the investigating official reported the matter to his higher-ups.