Overview
- The Judicial First Class Magistrate in Thiruvalla approved three days of custodial interrogation to trace devices and examine electronic material, with a bail plea listed for January 16.
- He was earlier remanded to 14 days’ judicial custody on January 11 after being produced before a Pathanamthitta magistrate.
- Police executed a pre-dawn, covert arrest from a Palakkad hotel, seized devices, and shifted him to the Pathanamthitta armed reserve camp for questioning.
- The latest FIR stems from an emailed complaint by a Pathanamthitta native now living in Canada who alleges rape, forced abortion, and financial exploitation, and she has arrived in Kerala to assist the probe.
- Mamkootathil had interim protection or anticipatory bail in two earlier cases, has been expelled by the Congress, and the Assembly Speaker is seeking legal opinion on possible disqualification as protests continued outside courts and hospitals.