Solar Scam rocks Kerala Oommen Chandy in deep trouble

Update 28 July 2013

Oommen Chandy to meet Sonia Gandhi. Ramesh chennithala not so interested

Update 27 July 2013

Oommen Chandy to take Asianet to court. Asianet talked to Saritha's advocate as if Minister Aaryadan was calling to patch up the issue. 

Update 9 2013
DYFI , YuvaMorcha clash with police , #midnight #secretariat #kerala.

 
Update 8 2013
Sreedharan Nair said he gave money to Saritha after visiting Oommen Chandy's office.

Update July 6 2013

News media says all the culprits are getting VIP treatment. 

Surendran of BJP says before Saritha's arrest home minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan talked to Saritha Nair. It was Saritha Nair who called Thiruvanchoor. 

Some more questions include why only one personal secretary Tenny Joppen got arrested?

Why Oommen Chandy not questioned so far ? In the petition filed by Sreedharan Nair Oommen Chandy's is named. 

Update : July 5 2013
Latest news on Solar Scandal Media got the call lists from Saritha's mobile number which show that among the ministers whose have contacted Saritha, tourism minister A P Anil Kumar and revenue minister Adoor Prakash have had frequent telephonic conversations with her. Former minister K B Ganesh Kumar of Kerala Congress (B) and Mons Joseph, MLA, of Kerala Congress (M), have contacted her more than 100 times in a few months.

The home minister's private secretary, P K Raveendran, was also in constant touch with her. Between February and May, Thiruvanchoor and Raveendran called Saritha or received calls from her 30 times. Raveendran even called her on May 30, three days before her arrest.

 Update : July 2 2013:
Shalu Menon's house warming celebration had current Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan too. He also got calls from Saritha Nair including a call for more than 3 minutes as per leaked phone reports. While other ministers like Aaryadan admitted that Saritha Nair called and came to see him once, Thiruvanchoor was silent on this and now says he don't remember about the calls.

Update: Oommen Chandy's personal assistant arrested for cheating. There is another allegation that the complaint got edited/corrected to remove Oommen Chandy.
The Principal Sessions Court on Tuesday rejected the anticipatory bail plea filed by PRD former director A Firoz, in a cheating case connected with the solar panel scandal.

Update:
Those in Oommen Chandy's office, Tenny Joppan, Jikku Jacob, Salim Raj, and RK, were in constant touch with Saritha S. Nair. In addition, the Chief Minister’s assistant in New Delhi, Thomas Kuruvilla, was also in touch with Saritha.

Atlas Jewellery gave an advance of Rs 23.50 lakh to Saritha on June 6, 2012, for supply of solar panels for its new branch at Palarivattom.

Regina George of Chilavannoor gave 95.86 lakh by offering partnership and dealership of an energy company.

Joy of Moovattupuzha paid Rs 1.60 lakh for Solar Panels.

Remanded till July 4 2013.

“Con woman” Saritha S Nair’s estranged husband Biju Radhakrishnan on Saturday dropped a bombshell saying former minister K B Ganesh Kumar and Union minister K C Venugopal had illicit relationships with his wife and that it was Ganesh who destroyed his  family and their solar power business.
 Talking to the media from an undisclosed location, Biju said he had informed Chief Minister Oommen Chandy about Ganesh’s fling with Saritha in an hour-long meeting at the Ernakulam Guest House. This meeting was facilitated by M I Shanavaz MP, he claimed.

Declared Assets & Liabilities of Hon'ble Judges at a glance

Driver, assistant arrested in Thekkady boat tragedy
The driver of the boat that capsized last week in the lake in Kerala killing 45 people has been arrested along with his assistant, police said on Monday.

Kerala magistrate issues arrest warrant against CM Acchuthanandan
K K Anil Kumar, a melshanti with a temple in Cherthala, filed the defamation case. In his complaint, Kumar had alleged that the report published on December 24, 2004 in the daily-Desabhimani contained defamatory statements against him.
Desabhimani is the mouth peace of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Kerala unit and Achuthnandan, was the editor in chief of the paper in 2004. The judicial magistrate also issued arrest warrants against CPI (M) state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan and the party''s deputy leader in the Lok Sabha P Karunakaran, who were printer and publisher and general manager of the daily respectively. The court expressed unhappiness over respondents repeated failure to appear before court even after summons were issued to them many times.

Critically endangered plants Syzygium travencorium Gamble, known as 'Kulavetti' spotted in Kerala
A bunch of about 200 critically endangered plants have been found by a group of botanists at Kalassamala in the district.

The plants -- Syzygium travencorium Gamble, known as 'Kulavetti' locally -- belong to the Myrtakae family and were found by the botanists of the Sri Krishna College, Guruvayur recently.

TN to challenge nod for Kerala dam survey

Pazhassi Raja demands 50% hike in ticket rate

Kerala HC dismisses contempt petition in Sister Abhaya case
The petition was filed by Sister Abhaya’s father, Mr M Thomas seeking contempt of court proceedings against the duo alleging they had not complied with the earlier order of the High Court to retrieve the original CDs of the narco-analysis tests conducted on the three accused in the murder case.

Kerala tribals end 26-month-old stir

High Court of Kerala Assets of Judges
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Kiliroor sex scandal case.

Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 10 (PTI) A lower court today directed the police to register a case against Kerala Health Minister P K Sreemathi and five others on a petition alleging that they had a role in suppressing a file concerning the Kiliroor sex scandal case.
Judicial First Class Magistrate, Philip Thomas, passed the orders while admitting a public interest petition filed by one P Nagarajan.

The petitioner contended that Sreemathi, CM's political secretary K N Balagopal and personal secretary S Rajendran had allegedly entered into a conspiracy to suppress a file seeking inquiry by a CBI officer in the rank of DIG into the death of an 18-year-old girl in 2005, who was allegedly the victim of sexual exploitation.

The girl, who belonged to Kiliroor in Kottayam, was allegedly lured by a group which promised her roles in teleserials.

The girl's father had approached the government seeking a high level probe alleging that some influential persons were trying to suppress the case. PTI

Hartaal @ Kerala Oct 2008 for Highcourt in Trivandrum

1298 Ambulance Service. Free for BPL (Below Poverty Line) families.. Ambulance Access for All. You can call 1298 for Ambulance from Mobile or Landline.
Holiday for all Educational Institutions. Exams postponed.
This hartal sponsored by Congress and BJP.

Golf Club order:Kerala Govt should approach properly.

Kerala HC dumps govt take over of Golf club
9/23/2008
In a major embarrassment for the Kerala Government, the State High Court quashed its May 31, 2008, order taking over possession of the Trivandrum Golf Club.Justice V Giri held the order was in violation of the principles of natural justice and hence, warranted interference of the court.The court held the show cause notice issued to the club did not contain specific allegations and the petitioners, the management of the club, were not given adequate opportunity to defend their case.Observing the government should act in a fair and reasonable manner, the court held the action of the government in taking over the club did not suit that mandate as the petitioners were not given proper hearing.However, the court also observed that indisputably, the government was the owner of the property and was entitled to exercise its right over the property.

The right available to the petitioner is very limited. The government, being the licensor, is entitled to revoke the licence.The Clause 11 of the licence deed also provides for revocation of licence. But the procedure adopted in issuing the order is vitiated, the court said.Laying down the fair procedure, the court directed the government to first issue show cause notice to the petitioner within one month from today. The petitioner shall file their objection within six weeks from that date. The government should complete the entire proceedings within six months.If the decision of the government was to evict the golf club management, then it should be given reasonable time to vacate the premises as it was in possession of the area for a long time, the court added.UNI

Even Policemen turns hostile

Policemen in Kerala suspended for shifting stand on colleague's death

The Kerala government Monday suspended three police officials for making contradictory statements on death of a colleague, who was killed trying to control a mob of students at a college here in October last year.

Karunakaran back in Congress

New Delhi, Dec 30: Senior Kerala politician K Karunakaran on Sunday returned to the Congress, two-and-half years after he parted ways with it in the wake of rampant infighting in the state unit.

The former Kerala Chief Minister was re-inducted into the party after he held separate meetings with Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here.

"Karunakaran is back in the Congress. There was unanimity in the party over his return," said AICC General Secretary Mohsina Kidwai, who was present during the meeting Karunakaran had with Gandhi.

She said Karunakaran has himself said that he will work towards strengthening the organisation.

Karunakaran along with his son K Muraleedharan parted ways with the Congress three years ago and floated the democratic Indira Congress, which later merged with the NCP.

His return to the Congress fold, however, is opposed by his son who said that he would remain as NCP state president and would not associate himself with his father's political line.