The State Crime Branch police confirmed late on Saturday that they have opened a criminal investigation against former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on suspicion of having sexually assaulted solar energy investment fraud case accused Sarita Nair at his official residence at Cliff house in Thiruvananthapuram in 2013.
In a first information report (FIR) filed on Saturday in the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Thiruvananthapuram, the Crime Branch has accused Mr. Chandy of having committed a sexual act deemed by law as unnatural on Ms. Sarita in reciprocation for promoting her dubious business pitch. The FIR was yet to surface in the public domain, and its facts were mostly secret as of now.