Chandy had yesterday written to CPI(M) state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan urging him to suggest a person as his party's nominee to the proposed three-member panel of experts to examine CCTV footage at the chief minister's office to verify if there was any truth in the complaint of one Sreedharan Nair that accused in the scam Saritha Nair had free access to CMO.
"More and more evidence coming out point to the direct involvement of Chandy and his office. This meant that the investigators will have to examine the CCTV footage of the chief minister's office as part of evidence gathering. It is to avoid that the chief minister has come out with the ploy of a joint panel with one of them being a CPI(M) nominee," Vijayan said.
On the government's move to refer the case to the CBI, Vijayan it was a "time-buying tactic" to delay the probe inordinately.