Kerala Police have filed a non-bailable case against Palakkad MLA Rahul Mamkootathil, accusing him of sexually abusing a woman under the pretext of marriage and forcing her to terminate her pregnancy.
Earlier, Mamkootathil was suspended from the Congress’s primary membership amid mounting pressure for his resignation after multiple audio clips, purportedly of him coercing a woman into having an abortion, surfaced in the media.
The FIR was initially registered at the Valiyamala police station and later transferred to Nemom, after the woman met Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and submitted a formal complaint outlining the allegations.
The MLA had previously been booked by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) on third-party complaints for alleged cyberstalking, but that probe stalled because the woman had not come forward at the time.
Mamkootathil, the Palakkad MLA, had met several senior Congress leaders in recent weeks to present his defence regarding the sexual misconduct allegations. However, the circulation of a new audio clip of his conversation with the complainant has further escalated the scandal, leaving the young leader in an increasingly precarious position even as the police investigation expands.
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