THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Opposition Leader V D Satheesan has approached the Election Commission of India on the controversial midnight raid in the hotel rooms of women Congress leaders Shanimol Usman and Bindu Krishna in Palakkad on Thursday.
In the letter, Satheesan highlighted how the CPM has been misusing the police politically by keeping the State Election Commission office and its officials a scarecrow.
"All the existing laws have been thrown to the wind while the police knocked and raided the hotel rooms of the senior women leaders. They did not abide by the instructions as per the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita. It's against the law that neither the ADM nor RDO was present during the Police raid", wrote Satheesan.
The senior government officials reached the hotel room only by 2:30 am when the raid had started around midnight. The RDO informed Vadakara MP Shafi Parambil that he was in the dark about the police raid, Satheesan claimed. Satheesan also did not spare the CPM either in his complaint where he highlighted that they have been trying to sabotage the electoral process with the help of the Police when the code of conduct is in force.
