Thiruvananthapuram: Judicial Court admits plea on forgery by Ganesh, Saritha

Thiruvananthapuram The judicial first class magistrate in Kottarakkara has admitted a petition alleging that Ms Saritha S Nair and Mr K B Ganesh Kumar, MLA, had colluded in forging a letter and misled the Solar Commission. The magistrate has posted the case to December 5. The petition filed by former Government pleader Sudheer Jacob alleges that Ms Nair and Mr Kumar conspired and fabricated a 25-page letter, incorporating names of the CM, ministers, MPs and MLAs, in place of the previous 21-page letter, and misled the Commission. Four new pages were attached on March 13, 2015 in Kottarakkara. This was at the behest of Mr Kumar- after (the then Chief Minister, Mr Oommen Chandy) decided to keep him out of the ministry. The petitioner urged the magistrate to direct the police to file an FIR and probe the letter forgery.

Advocate Fenny Balakrishnan had on July 23, 2013 issued a receipt for the letter Ms Nair wrote on July 19, 2013. Pathanamthitta jail superintendent Visawanatha Kurup had deposed before the Solar Commission that the original letter had only 21 pages. On July 28, 2103, Ms Nair in a letter stated before the Ernakulam magistrate that she had no complaint.

But Ms Nair submitted to the Commission the 25-page letter on June 6, 2016, which contained graft and sexual allegations. It was on the basis of this letter that the Commission recommended further action in the Solar case. The State Government appointed a special investigation team to probe these issues on the basis of the recommendation. The petitioner pointed that this letter had misled the Commission into taking the wrong decision.

Advocate Balakrishnan had on November 11, 2017, disclosed at a press conference in Thiruvananthapuram the letter forgery. He had pointed out that the records would prove that the commission did not permit him to raise the issue of the letter forgery, aimed at misleading the commission. He had told the Commission that the media reports contained things contradictory to the original letter but the Commission did not allow him to explain how the new letter had come in to being.