Two Kerala ministers get bail in five-year old case related to violence in assembly

After the Kerala High Court refused to entertain their plea, two ministers in Pinarayi Vijayan’s cupboard appeared earlier than the chief judicial Justice of the Peace’s (CJM) court docket within the state capital on Wednesday and took bail in a case regarding violent incidents within the meeting in 2015.

The HC had rejected their plea on Tuesday to remain the case and exempt their private look in court docket. On October 15, the CJM’s court docket had ordered the six accused within the case, together with the 2 ministers, to look earlier than it. Later, each ministers had moved the High Court.

The House witnessed violent incidents in March 2015 after opposition Left Democratic Front (LDF) legislators prevented then Finance Minister Okay M Mani from presenting the state funds alleging his function in a bar bribery case. Angry members snapped mikes, destroyed furnishings and broken lights within the melee and two legislators had been later hospitalized. The session was reside when violence unfolded within the House.

Then Speaker N Sakthan later filed a police grievance in opposition to six LDF legislators, two of them EP Jayarajan and KT Jaleel are ministers within the Pinarayi Vijayan ministry now. The grievance mentioned property price Rs 2.5 lakh was broken within the melee and so they tried to manhandle treasury bench members. But the case did not make any progress and when the LDF got here to energy in 2016 the general public prosecutor had sought permission to withdraw it however the court docket declined.

The authorities had invoked the privilege of legislators to justify its choice to withdraw the case however the court docket rejected it saying privilege was not a licence to hold out violent actions within the House.

During a dialogue within the meeting final 12 months chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan had mentioned meeting proceedings shouldn’t be dragged to courts. Interestingly the Kerala Congress (Mani) is within the left camp now.