Sandeep Nair’s statement contains shocking facts, HC told

‘Bid to fabricate evidence against higher-ups of the State’s political executive’

The State government on Thursday submitted before the Kerala High Court that the statement of Sandeep Nair, one of the accused in the diplomatic gold smuggling and dollar smuggling cases, revealed shocking and startling facts about the criminal acts of the suspects in a case registered against the officials of the Enforcement Directorate (ED). The submission was made by the counsel for the State government when the petitions filed by P. Radhakrishnan, Deputy Director, ED, Kochi, against the registration of two separate first information reports (FIRs) based on a complaint from Sandeep Nair and two women police officers came up for hearing. Counsel for the government submitted that the investigation into the complaint of Nair had revealed heinous offences of attempt to fabricate false evidence against the higher-ups of the State’s political executive at the instance of the ED officials.