KOTTAYAM: A
financial fraud case
in which
BJP leader Kummanam Rajasekharan
was named as an accused has been settled after
complainant
wrote to police saying he received the money due to him.
P R Harikrishnan
will move high court to quash his complaint.
In his letter to Aranmula police on Monday, Harikrishnan said he received the money after talks with first accused Praveen B Pillai and second accused Vijayan.
As per rules, a complainant has to get the FIR cancelled from the court and till then, police cannot close the case file.
Kummanam was named the fourth accused in the FIR registered on the complaint by Harikrishnan, a native of Aranmula. Pillai, former personal assistant of Kummanam, is the prime accused. The cases were charged under IPC sections 406, 420 and 34.
The case was for cheating the complainant by taking money from him by promising to get him share in a new venture of New Bharath Biotechnologies.
Praveen is alleged to have cheated the complainant by posing as a middleman and taking Rs 30.75 lakh on different occasions from him for starting the new venture based in Palakkad. During this time, Kummanam was serving as the governor in Mizoram. When a complaint was raised, BJP NRI cell former convener Harikumar intervened and returned Rs 6.25 lakh.
According to Aranmula police, Kummanam was added as an accused as the complainant said he met Praveen in the presence of Kummanam and Kummanam had recommended the company to him. Kummanam had later said the case against him was politically motivated.
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