Kerala CM Oommen Chandy files defamation case against Saritha

Chandy has also filed defamation case against four senior editors of two Malayalam news channels along with Saritha for airing the news on April 3 and April 4, this year.

The complaint filed before Chief Judicial Magistrate Court, Ernakulam, said they released a “truncated letter (allegedly written by her while she was in judicial incarceration) wherein it is stated that she was raped by the complainant in his official residence--Cliff House, Thiruvananthapuram.”

“Common sense fails to comprehend as to how such an incident can occur in the Cliff House, where the complainant is residing with his family, and several security guards,” the complaint said.

The local news channels had released the 25-page letter which Saritha had allegedly written in 2013 while she was in custody following her arrest in the solar scam.

In his complaint, the senior Congress leader said enquiries made by him thereafter revealed that the respective letter was a “newly drafted one made at the instance of the adversaries of the complainant” to tarnish his image and reputation and “to ensure that the political party represented by him meets with defeat” in the May 16 state assembly polls.