Solar scam: CBI begins probe against Chandy, other leaders
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday took over the probe into allegations of sexual exploitation against former Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy, former Union minister (of state) KC Venugopal, and others by the woman accused in the 2013 solar fraud case.
Confirming the development, a CBI official in Delhi said the central agency has taken over six FIRs filed by the state crime branch and filed FIRs in the chief judicial magistrate’s court in Thiruvananthapuram.
In 2018, the state crime branch registered cases against several senior Congress leaders after Saritha S Nair, an accused in the solar fraud case that happened when the UDF government was in power, accused them of sexually exploiting her in 2012.
