Close on the heels of the P J Kurien issue, another sex scandal has returned to haunt the state. The ice cream parlour sex case diary now accessed by Opposition Leader V S Achuthanandan following a court order has shocking revelations by the victims pointing fingers at Industries Minister P K Kunhalikutty and his brother-in-law K A Rauf in the sabotage of the sensational case.
Some of the case diary details reveal the sexual exploitation of two victims by Kunhalikutty. One of the victims P Roslin, 37, of Eranjipplam in Kozhikode, says in her statement made before the Crime Branch on March 9, 2011, that the victims were called to the house of one Chelaeri Sherief and coached how to face the interrogation by the Crime Branch. They were threatened to parrot what they had been taught to tell.
Roslin says she and several other girls had been used by Sreedevi, the ice cream parlour proprietor. Roslin says that in 1995 Sreedevi sent them to a house in Shoranur where they met Kunhalikutty and he had sex with both of them. They were paid Rs 5,000 each. It was Kunhalikutty’s driver who brought them back in his car. The case dairy says Roslin gave statement before police officials more than twice. But the police never took them to the site of the crime at Shoranur.
They had been asked to wear purdah to keep their identity a secret and prevent others from contacting them. It was Rauf who bought them the purdah. Rauf’s car was given to them to reach the court and return to his office. Roslin says Rauf had engaged a senior lawyer to train them to face the trial at a house at Chalappuram. Rauf gave Roslin Rs 4 lakh. Bindu also was given money. Rauf continued to pay them money whenever they asked for.