Kerala Government in High Court against the CBI probe of the Mission Life Scam

Kerala government to file a petition against the CBI probe into the Life Mission Scam, After taking advice from Advocate General CP Sudhakara Prasad.

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala government to file a petition against the CBI probe into the Life Mission Scam, After taking advice from Advocate General CP Sudhakara Prasad in this regard. In his legal advice, the Advocate General informed the government that an appeal can be moved to CBI’s one-sided action.

The government alleged that the action of the CBI was one-sided. CBI is probing the conspiracy of the Life Mission Project with the angle of corruption.

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CBI can probe into corruption cases in India as per the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act. But the CBI should seek the government’s permission before initiating the probe.

Experts, however, said that there was very little scope for any favorable court order for the state government since the CBI could take suo-moto notice in the matter related to an alleged violation of the Foreign Currency Regulation Act. It did not require the state’s concurrence, they added.

The Life Mission project, a pet project of Vijayan ever since he assumed the CM’s office in 2016, was floated to build houses for the homeless and landless, using funds raised through sponsorships. The state’s role was limited to only providing the land.

The project, however, ran into trouble when Anil Akkara, a Congress legislator, first raised questions about alleged wrongdoings in a building project in his Wadakkanchery constituency in Thrissur, for which funds came from UAE-based charity Red Crescent.