Overview
- A Thiruvalla magistrate on January 13 granted the Special Investigation Team three days' custody of expelled Congress MLA Rahul Mamkootathil in a sexual assault case.
- In the early hours of January 14, investigators took him to a Thiruvalla hotel for on-site evidence collection with a heavy police deployment.
- The latest FIR, filed January 8, cites IPC sections 376 and 506(1) and is based on a Canada-based complainant's video statement alleging an April 2024 rape after a promise of marriage.
- Police arrested Mamkootathil in Palakkad on January 10 in connection with the third case, after he had previously secured Kerala High Court protection from arrest in two earlier cases.
- Congress leaders emphasized he was already expelled, while CPI(M) and BJP youth activists protested during court and medical procedures, including throwing rotten eggs.