Overview
- The Thiruvananthapuram Principal Sessions Court allowed pre-arrest bail with requirements to appear every Monday, avoid influencing witnesses, preserve evidence, and cooperate with investigators.
- The case is based on a complaint by a 23-year-old Bengaluru woman alleging a 2023 assault on the promise of marriage, and police placed her statement before the court.
- The order follows reports that the expelled Congress MLA had been absconding for 13 days in connection with this second case.
- In a separate earlier matter, a court denied him anticipatory bail on allegations including rape and coercion to terminate a pregnancy.
- Following that denial, the Congress expelled him, the Kerala High Court later granted interim protection in the first case, and an SIT is probing the fresh allegations.