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CBI seeks time to file report in SSLC paper leak case

Staff Reporter

HIGH COURTROUND-UP

Kochi: The CBI on Monday filed a petition before the Kerala High Court seeking three months time to file a final report in the SSLC question paper leak case.

The CBI said the final report could be filed before the court only after obtaining sanction from the Government for prosecuting the accused.

The CBI said the investigation had been completed and that the report was being scrutinised. It said Suresh K., the sixth accused in the case, had stolen the question paper from the Chennai press. The accused was a helper at the press. He committed the conspiracy in furtherance of a plot hatched by Sindhu, second accused and Bindu Varghese, first accused. The first accused handed over the question papers to her son who gave it to his friends.

The CBI investigations also revealed that Rajan Chacko, third accused, had been sending illegal gratification to S. Ravindran and V. Sanu, former secretaries of Pariksha Bhavan and other officers through cash and by DD. This was distributed through middlemen.

Lavalin case

The State Government has reiterated that like CBI, the Vigilance has the sufficient infrastructure to investigate the allegations in the SNC Lavalin case. In an affidavit, the Government said the previous UDF Government did not have any valid reason when it took the decision to entrust the CBI with the investigation. The present Government took a decision that the investigation need not be entrusted to the CBI.

It said that in the original memorandum of understanding signed in August 95 and later an agreement signed in 1996 between the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) and SNC Lavalin, there was no mention about the proposal to set up Malabar Cancer Centre. It was only in the MoU executed in 1998 that the Malabar Cancer Centre came in the picture. Even in that MoU, the amount for setting up the Malabar Cancer Centre was not mentioned. It was a goodwill gesture shown by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and Quebec Government and others.

The affidavit was filed in response to writ petitions seeking a CBI inquiry into the Lavalin case.

Pirated CDs

Rishiraj Singh, head of the anti-piracy cell, said the CD manufacturing unit in Kochi run by the wife of Inspector-General Tomin J. Thachankery had been directed not to take out CDs from the unit without the permission of the police.

He said in a statement that if the CDs were taken out, it would affect the investigation.

The Welgate Video shopowner had confessed that the three pirated CDs seized were bought from the CD manufacturing unit run by Anita Thachankery.

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