Overview
- Officers took the Palakkad legislator from a hotel room around 1 am and moved him to a Pathanamthitta police camp, where his arrest was recorded after preliminary questioning.
- Investigators plan to produce him before a magistrate later on Sunday as the probe continues under the Crime Branch’s Special Investigation Team.
- The latest complainant, a married NRI now in Canada, gave a video statement alleging rape on a promise of marriage, coercion to terminate a pregnancy, and repeated financial demands.
- Police sealed his hotel room for evidence collection and are examining seized devices along with communication records, travel details and medical documentation tied to the case.
- Mamkootathil was previously granted interim protection in one case and anticipatory bail in another, and he was expelled by the Congress following earlier accusations.