Thiruvananthapuram: Veteran leader V S Achuthanandan on Thursday made it amply clear that he would continue his fight for getting justice to victims in the ice cream parlour sex racket case.
Contrary to the reports that the veteran leader was totally disappointed by the recent Supreme Court verdict rejecting his plea for a CBI probe, Achuthanandan seems to be in no mood to call it quits just yet.
“The Supreme Court has directed to approach the trial court. Under these circumstances I will be approaching the trail court,” he said when mediapersons sought to know what would be his future plan following the apex court verdict.
The veteran leader is firm on carrying on his fight. “Just wait and watch,” he said.
Achuthanandan had termed the Government standing counsel’s stand before Supreme Court that ice cream parlour case was a politically motivated case as unfortunate. The veteran leader was also upset over the apex court’s observation that the court should not be used for settling political scores.
The veteran leader’s decision to approach the trial court is also a reply to the state government represented by senior advocate K K Venugopal, who while objecting to his plea had stated that the ice cream parlour case had already witnessed five rounds of litigation since 1997.
Though a closure report had been filed in the magistrate court which was being examined currently, the veteran leader strongly believes that there was subversion of the judicial process.
Suicide of two teen girls still a mystery
CPM leader V.S. Achuthanandan has been doggedly pursuing the Kozhikode ice cream parlour sex scandal case involving IUML leader P.K. Kunhalikutty although the Supreme Court has dismissed his plea seeking a CBI probe into the case. The scandal had rocked the state in 1996 and later with the mysterious suicide of two young girls and the serial deaths of the witnesses in the case.
The girls, Sibana Sunny and Sunaina Najmal, both 17 and students of a city college, committed suicide by jumping in front of a train at the 4th gate near the YMCA building leaving behind many unanswered questions on the sex racket that operated from an ice cream parlour in Kozhikode.
In 2013, Mr Abdul Aziz, state general secretary, National Secular Conference, had approached the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court here demanding a CBI probe into the role of C. Sreedevi, an accused in the case who was acquitted, and Mr Kunhalikutty in the twin deaths. Mr Achuthanandan also joined the legal battle later.
The girls were lured into the sex trap at the parlour and subjected to sexual exploitation at a flat complex near 4th gate, according to the complaint filed by Mr Abdul Aziz. The girls jumped in front of the train after running out of the flat complex. Moreover, the post-mortem documents of Sunaina Najmal vanished from the medical college. Sunaina was the daughter of the late Gazal singer Najmal Babu, son of the legendary singer Kozhikode Abdul Khader.
Rajan and Balakrishnan, both security staff of a residential apartment near YMCA here, who found the sobbing girls running out of the apartments, were found dead within a few months. To cap it all, Sunny, father of Sibana, died under mysterious circumstances. Najmal Babu, father of Sunaina, led a self-imposed exile till his death in 2013.
