Overview
- Justice A. Badharudeen extended the no-arrest relief for the expelled Congress MLA and listed the anticipatory bail plea for detailed hearing on January 21.
- No coercive steps may be taken against the Palakkad legislator until the High Court considers the matter later this month.
- The court allowed the de facto complainant to be impleaded and granted her two weeks to file a counter-affidavit in opposition to the bail plea.
- Mamkootathil is the first accused in a Nemom Police case alleging rape, causing miscarriage without consent, voluntarily causing hurt, criminal intimidation, and a privacy violation under the IT Act.
- He moved the High Court after a Thiruvananthapuram Sessions Court rejected his anticipatory bail, and a co-accused has since received pre-arrest bail in a related case.