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Sack Advocate General: DYFI

By Our Special Correspondent

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, NOV. 18. The State leadership of the DYFI has alleged `mafia rule' at the Advocate General's office and sought immediate removal of the Advocate General, M. Ratna Singh, for his alleged links with the mafia.

The DYFI State president, P. R. Vasanthan, and general secretary, A. Pradeep Kumar, told a news conference here today that that a lottery mafia, a sex mafia and a bail mafia were in operation at the Advocate General's office and demanded that there should be an independent inquiry into the activities of these mafia groups and the way they obstructed justice.

`Open support'

The Advocate General's office is supposed to protect the interests of the people and the Government.

But it has become a den of mafia gangs. The Advocate General's open support for the accused in the Kozhikode ice-cream parlour sex racket case was a clear proof of this.

Norms violation

The brief for one of the main accused in the case, Sreedevi, is with the Advocate General's son-in-law. This is a clear violation of all norms of the Constitution and morality, they said.

They termed the Chief Minister, Oommen Chandy's statement that the law would take its due course as a `first rate sham' and wanted to know how the law would take its due course when such a person holds office as Advocate General.

The Government failed to take the lottery case forward only on account of machinations by the Advocate General and the Industries Minister, P. K. Kunhalikutty's brother-in-law, who was a constant presence at the AG's office, they said.

Conspiracy alleged

The DYFI leaders said there was a conspiracy to defeat the forest-related cases, the Halcyon Castle case and the B. Ed. College case.

Equally powerful was the `bail mafia' connected with the Advocate General's office, they added.

Asked why the DYFI had not so far acted upon its threat to block the path of Mr. Kunhalikutty, they said the DYFI has decided to block the path of Mr. Kunhalikutty only when he attends public functions in his capacity as Minister.

To the question why they were not concerned about sex racket cases other than the ice-cream parlour case, they said it was not so and added that they had nothing against all allegations relating to the Kiliroor-Kaviyoor case also being investigated.

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