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Wednesday, May 28, 2025
The racket was busted with the seizure of gold worth about Rs 15 crore from the UAE Consulate's diplomatic baggage at the Thiruvananthapuram airport on July 5, 2020.
Govindan is filing the petition against Swapna Suresh for the alleged defamatory remarks made against him through a Facebook live session.
The court made these remarks while passing the order rejecting former Principal Secretary M Sivasankar's bail plea in the same case.
Swapna openly challenged Govindan's legal notice and declared that she would not pay even a penny in damages.
The Thiruvananthapuram gold smuggling case-accused has called the defamation notice served by the CPM state secretary 'silly'.
Though the Enforcement Directorate (ED) opposed the bail plea, the court granted bail accepting the contention that he was co-operating with the probe.
The ED sleuths are now investigating how she got the appointment in violation of norms and by submission of fake documents.
A local level CPM party leader at Taliparamba filed a case against her and Pillai stating that they were in unison to create trouble and ruin peace through these baseless allegations.
ED officials have reported that Eapen had mediated the distribution of the bribe in the scam.
The complaint filed by CPM's Taliparambu area secretary K Santosh demanded action against Swapna and Vijesh for running a smear campaign against Pinarayi Vijayan and M V Govindan.
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