Thiruvananthapuram, February 15: Kerala police on Tuesday registered a case against Congress MP K Sudhakaran for his controversial statement that he was witness to a Supreme Court judge being bribed years back.
The Museum Police took the case against the Lok Sabha member on the basis of a complaint by a local lawyers forum which alleged Sudhakaran’s speech at a public meeting few days back amounted to insulting the judiciary.
According to police, the case had been charged under IPC sections 120 and 200, concealing design to commit offences and using false declaration as true respectively.
Sudhakaran’s speech, made at Kottarakkara in Kollam district last Saturday, has sparked a raging row in political and legal circles.
The Congress party has distanced itself from Sudhakaran’s adverse remarks against judiciary holding that the party was against any attempt that would dent Judiciary’s credibility.
A former state minister, who now represents Kannur in the Lok Sabha, Sudhakaran made the charge without naming the judge at the meeting organised by the supporters of Kerala Congress-B leader R Balakrishna Pillai, who was recently sentenced to one year imprisonment by the Supreme Court in a corruption case.
—PTI