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File photo of CPI(M) leader Saji Cheriyan. (Photo: Twitter/@cpimspeak)
Cherian was administered the oath of office on Wednesday by Governor Arif Mohammad Khan at the Raj Bhavan where Congress-led UDF MLAs were absent protesting the reinstatement of the CPI(M) leader in the cabinet.
A day after CPI(M) leader Saji Cheriyan was sworn in as a minister, a Kerala court on Thursday rejected a plea to defer its final verdict on a police report giving him a clean chit in a case of his alleged remarks against her. Was given Constitution.
The Judicial First Class Magistrate Court in Thiruvalla rejected the application of Baiju Noel M, a lawyer, who wanted to defer the verdict on the police report as he moved the Kerala High Court seeking a CBI probe into the matter.
The advocate confirmed that the magistrate’s court rejected his plea.
It was on his complaint that the court ordered the police to register a case in the matter.
Noel, in his application, had contended that the police did not conduct a fair, just and fair investigation into the matter.
Cherian was administered the oath of office on Wednesday by Governor Arif Mohammad Khan at the Raj Bhavan, where Congress-led UDF MLAs were absent protesting against the CPI(M) leader’s reinstatement in the cabinet.
Both the Congress and the BJP had staged protests in the state against the reinstatement.
Khan initially raised some concerns regarding the CPI(M) leader’s reinstatement, saying “it was not a normal matter”, but later approved the government’s recommendation.
Last week, the CPI(M) decided to bring him back into the cabinet.
The CPI(M) leader had resigned from the cabinet in July last year over his alleged remarks against the Constitution during a speech in Pathanamthitta district and registration of a criminal case against him in that regard.
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