Rape charges against state secretary’s son has the CPI(M) in a soup.
IF CPI(M) leaders in Kerala thought that the drubbing in the recent Lok Sabha elections, where the party won just one of 20 seats, was the nadir, they were horribly mistaken. Barely a month after the debacle, on June 18, a young entrepreneur in Anthoor, Kannur, took his life after the municipality ruled by the party refused to give the clearance for an auditorium he had built with his life’s savings. Then came the real stinker. A day earlier, an English daily had published a crime story in its Mumbai edition, which concerned a complaint filed by a 33-year-old woman from Mira Road. She accused a certain Binoy Vinodini Balakrishnan alias Binoy Balakrishnan Kodiyeri of rape and cheating among other things. It did not initially create a stir because the news item did not identify the father of the accused: Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, former home minister and currently secretary of the CPI(M)’s state unit. The moment the identity was known the following day, it became fodder for the media.
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William Dalrymple goes further back
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