Shafi Parambil, the prime accused in the case, had earlier failed to appear before the court, leading to the issuance of a non-bailable arrest warrant against him last week. He appeared before the court on Tuesday following the issuance of the warrant.
The Palakkad DSP, Manoj Kumar, has asked for a detailed explanation from the Dy SP R Manoj Kumar for his WhatsApp status update posted by him criticising President Draupadi Murmu’s visit to the Sabarimala temple.
This is his first visit to Palakkad since being expelled from the Congress Parliamentary Party over sexual harassment allegations and resigning as state president of the Youth Congress.
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who made her poll debut from the Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency, secured a historic victory with a record-breaking margin of over 4 lakh votes over her nearest rival, LDF’s Sathyan Mokeri, surpassing the record set by her brother Rahul Gandhi.
With polling officially ending at 6 pm, certain booths in Palakkad witnessed queues of voters still waiting to cast their votes.
It has been reported that the advertisement was published before the polls without obtaining permission from the Media Monitoring Committee of the Election Commission.
The high-octane, month-long public campaign for the Palakkad Assembly by-election concluded on Monday evening with grand roadshows organized by the three major political fronts—the Congress-led UDF, the CPI(M)-headed LDF, and the BJP-led NDA.
The Commission asked the district collector for a report of the search conducted in the hotel rooms of Congresswomen leaders.
A midnight police raid at a hotel occupied by Congress women leaders in the Palakkad Assembly constituency on Tuesday triggered protests and clashes between Congress workers and the police. The police claimed the search was for alleged black money, but they found nothing in the hotel.
Additional Sessions Judge R Vinayaka Rao handed down the sentence to Suresh and Prabhu Kumar of Elamannam, the uncle and father of Haritha, wife of the deceased Aneesh.
