Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala High Court will hear the bail pleas of 17 accused in the Suryanelli gangrape case on Monday. A day after a local court rejected the survivor's plea for a re-investigation into the alleged involvement of Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman PJ Kurien.
The survivor had on Friday lodged a police complaint insisting that Kurien be made an accused. The complaint lodged at Chingavanam police station also sought that Dharmarajan, an absconding convict who had jumped bail in the case and was arrested recently from Karnataka, and two other persons - Unnikrishnan and Jamal, be also arraigned as accused.
According to the complainant, Dharmarajan had told a television channel that he had accompanied Kurien to Kumily rest house in his car on February 19, 1996 where the survivor had been sexually exploited. Kurien's name figured again in connection with the case after the survivor wrote to her advocate to explore the possibility of filing a review plea in the Supreme Court, seeking a fresh probe against him. Kurien has maintained he has been cleared of the charges by the Supreme Court.
The case relates to the girl hailing from Suryanelli in Idukki district of Kerala being abducted in January 1996 and transported to various places and sexually exploited by different persons.
With Additional Inputs From PTI
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