Overview
- Justice K. Babu said the MLA cannot be arrested while his anticipatory bail plea is pending, with a detailed order awaited and the matter listed for December 15.
- A Thiruvananthapuram sessions court had earlier rejected his pre-arrest bail request, after which the Kerala Congress expelled him from the party.
- Police had said he was absconding, issued lookout notices, expanded searches to Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, and detained a driver who reportedly dropped him in Bengaluru.
- A second FIR has been registered on a separate complaint, and a Special Investigation Team led by AIG G. Poonguzhali is overseeing that probe.
- Investigators plan to rely on circumstantial and cyber-forensic evidence, while Mamkootathil’s High Court petition asserts the first relationship was consensual.