Kozhikode First Class Judicial Magistrate P T Prakasan, while considering the petition moved by the CPI(M) stalwart, ordered to deliver the documents to Achuthanandan. These relate to the final report submitted by the Special Investigating Team (SIT) that there was no ground for re-opening the case on the allegation that the original probe was sabotaged by IUML leader and state Industries Minister P K Kunhalikutty.
The court will consider the petition filed by Achuthanandan seeking to hear his views and the report filed by the special police team that investigated the allegations by K A Rauf, a businessman and relative of Kunhalikutty, on January 17.
Achuthanandan had personally appeared before the court on July 6 last year and filed a petition seeking that his version also be heard before the court takes a decision on the probe panel findings.
The petition also said that Achuthanandan had already filed a plea before the Kerala High Court that the investigation be handed over to the CBI.
Earlier, the probe team had submitted a report in a court here stating that there was no evidence to substantiate the charge that the case was sabotaged.
The case pertains to allegations that an ice cream parlour at Kozhikode beach was used as a cover for running a sex racket in the late 1990s.
Though Kunhalikutty never became an accused in the case, he had come under a cloud in the wake of the scandal and even had to quit a ministry then.
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The scandal surfaced last year with Rauf alleging that he had helped him wriggle out of the case by indulging in improper means, including bribing the witnesses.
A fresh probe was ordered by the then LDF Government headed by Achuthanandan on revelations of Rauf.