Thiruvananthapuram, Wednesday, 17 December 2008: Stating that the government had nothing to hide in the controversial Kiliroor sex scandal case, Kerala Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan told the State Assembly today that it was ready for probe by any investigating agency, even international ones.
Replying to a submission by P C Vishnunath (Cong) that the files pertaining to the case were missing, he said Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan had already stated in the House that all the files relating to the case were intact.
The Congress-led Opposition was trying to create a ‘’smoke screen” out of the whole issue, he said. The ”missing file” controversy arose after IAS officer K Suresh Kumar, who had earlier worked as special secretary in the CM’s office, alleged that two officials at the office were hiding the sensitive file.
Noting that the whole issue happened during the previous UDF government, he said LDF after assuming office had written to the Union Home Minister twice seeking a CBI inquiry into the whole episode.
The police had already registered a case against State Health Minister P K Sreemathy and five others, including two members of the CM’s personal staff, in connection with the scandal involving the sexual exploitation of a a girl and her subsequent death at a private hospital in Kottayam.
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