By Express News Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The state crime department on Friday arrested the gold smuggling accused Swapna Suresh, the previous government secretary on the UAE Consulate in Thiruvananthapuram, in a forgery case.
The case pertains to the forging of signatures of 16 ladies staff of Air India-SATS which have been then used to prepare dinner up a sexual harassment criticism towards an Air India whistleblower. The arrest has been recorded on the Women’s jail at Attakulangara.
The sleuths have additionally submitted a petition within the Thiruvananthapuram judicial top notch Justice of the Peace in search of the custody of Swpana for additional interrogation. The court docket will contemplate the petition quickly.
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Swapna has been named because the second accused within the case whereas former Air India-SATS vice-president Binoy Jacob is arraigned as the primary accused.
Earlier, the crime department had filed a report within the court docket naming her as an accused on the premise of proof that proved that she had solid paperwork and produced pretend witnesses earlier than the Internal Complaint Cell of Air India to implicate one among its staffers in sexual harassment case. She has been charged for forgery, impersonation and dishonest.
The crime department is investigating the criticism filed by L S Sibu, a whistleblower in Air India, who had alleged that he was being framed for exposing corruption in Air India. The sexual harassment criticism was signed by 17 feminine workers of Air India-SATS.
However, the Crime Branch discovered that the criticism was pretend and 16 of those signatures have been solid. During the listening to earlier than the interior criticism cell, a lady had testified after impersonating as one of many victims of the harassment, the Crime Branch came upon. The case was first probed by the Crime Detachment Cell and was later taken over by the Crime Branch. The complainant, Sibu, stated the pretend criticism had affected his life.
