Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala Assembly on Monday will witness discussions over the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) report on the solar scam as Speaker AN Shamseer admitted the adjournment motion moved by Palakkad MLA Shafi Parambil. The discussion will be held from 1 pm till 3 pm. 

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan responded to the notice moved by Shafi Parambil and said the government did not have the CBI report in hand. The leader added that he could not give a reply based on speculations and hence informed the house to hold a discussion on the matter. Following this, the Speaker gave approval for a two-hour discussion. 

The investigation report filed by the CBI the other day, had unveiled an intricate plot aimed at implicating the former Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy in a sexual harassment case linked to the solar scam. It argued that KB Ganesh Kumar MLA and former Kerala Congress (Balakrishna Pillai) general secretary C Manoj Kumar alias Saranya Manoj conspired to name Chandy in the case.

Further, CBI pointed out that the victim's letter initially did not contain Chandy's name. The letter surfaced while the victim was serving jail term in connection with the solar scam. According to the CBI, Chandy's name was later added to this letter, and Ganesh Kumar confiscated the same document with the assistance of a witness. Furthermore, Saranya Manoj's statement backed up the claim.

The CBI had earlier submitted referral reports in the court giving clean chits to four other Congress leaders including AICC general secretary K C Venugopal, Lok Sabha MPs Adoor Prakash and Hibi Eden, and MLA A P Anil Kumar who were named as accused in the sexual exploitation case filed by the woman.

The cases against the six people, including Chandy, were registered over the past few years and investigated by the Crime Branch of the Kerala Police based on a complaint by the woman, an accused in the multi-crore solar panel scam during the UDF government, that she was sexually exploited by them in 2012.

The CPI(M)-led Kerala government had recommended a CBI inquiry into the cases in January 2021, a few months ahead of the polls to the state assembly.

With PTI inputs