The case was posted on over 20 occasions in the Thiruvananthapuram court before it was transferred to Nedumangad. Later, the case, which was to be tried in a Thiruvananthapuram court, was transferred to the Nedumangad court considering the fact that the accused was a prominent lawyer practising before the court which was supposed to try the case. The case also raises questions of legal and constitutional propriety of a person against whom a court has found a prima facie case occupying a cabinet berth.īarring the issuance of summons to some witnesses in the case, which came to the court in 2006, nothing significant took place in the courtrooms. The accused resorted to the malpractice of securing the acquittal of the convict from the High Court.īesides the criminal act of cheating a court by tampering with evidence, the unusual delay in completing the trial has caught many people by surprise. However, it was later revealed that the size of the undergarment, which was procured from the trial court, was altered to appear that it could not be worn by the Australian. He was subsequently acquitted by the Kerala High Court on an appeal. Commercial quantities of charas, a narcotic substance, was also recovered from the pockets of the undergarment of the Australian, who was awarded a jail term of 10 years rigorous imprisonment. Raju, a lawyer at that time, has been charge-sheeted for conspiring with the clerk of the property section of a trial court in Thiruvananthapuram for replacing an undergarment, a material object in the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act case, that was worn by an Australian citizen, Andrew Salvatore Cervelli. Raju, the second accused in the criminal case booked in 1994, is facing some serious charges including cheating, criminal conspiracy, dishonestly inducing delivery of property and causing disappearance of evidence of offence. Over 15 years after being charge-sheeted in a criminal case, Kerala Transport Minister Antony Raju will stand trial at the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court at Nedumangad next month.
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