Sign In
By signing in or creating an account, you agree with Associated Broadcasting Company's Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy.
By signing in or creating an account, you agree with Associated Broadcasting Company's Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy.
Thiruvananthapuram: After hours of interrogation, the Trivandrum Cyber Police arrested commentator Rahul Easwar for allegedly revealing the identity of the woman who accused Palakkad MLA Rahul Mamkoottathil of raping and impregnating her. Mr Ishwar will be produced in the court today.
Speaking to the media, Easwar’s wife, Deepa, said a team of police officers visited their house on Sunday and asked her husband to accompany them. His arrest was later recorded after interrogation at the AR Camp.
He will be produced before the Vanchiyoor court on Monday.
In a video shared on his social media pages, Easwar told his audience that the police had reached his house and asked him to accompany them with his laptop and mobile phones. It is alleged that Easwar revealed information that exposed the rape survivor’s identity during a debate on a television channel.
His wife Deepa Easwar argued that he would not dare to reveal the woman’s identity as he is aware of the law, and she criticised the police for registering a “false case” against him. She claimed that her husband merely expressed his opinion on men’s rights
Police intensify search of Rahul Mamkoottathil
The police team probing the complaint of rape and forced termination of pregnancy filed against Rahul Mamkootathil MLA has intensified its manhunt to track him down before the additional district and sessions court takes up his anticipatory bail plea on Wednesday.
The police team on Sunday searched Rahul’s apartment in Palakkad to collect evidence.
The complainant alleged that Rahul had raped her for two days in that apartment in the last week of May this year. Though the police checked the CCTV visuals, the exercise proved to be futile as the cameras only had a month’s backup.
The police questioned the personal staff of Rahul and scrutinised his phone call records, sources said.
The police have been extensively searching for digital leads to track down the legislator, who went absconding after the survivor filed a complaint against him.
The cops collected CCTV visuals from several pockets in the district in a bid to identify the route he might have taken to flee from the district. The intelligence wing has also been collecting details in a bid to locate Rahul. Sources said the primary assessment of the intelligence wing is that Rahul could be taking the help of his loyalists to lay low.
The sources added that some of the Congress leaders, who have a rapport with Rahul, were under surveillance for their suspected role in assisting the accused. The investigators, meanwhile, have collected medical records of the victim, which would be presented before the court when the anticipatory bail plea comes up for hearing. The cops had identified two hospitals where the woman sought treatment following heavy bleeding owing to unguided termination of pregnancy.
