C M Raveendran appears at ED office, to be grilled soon in life mission case

KOCHI: The chief minister’s additional private secretary C M Raveendran has appeared at the office of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for interrogation in the Life Mission bribery case. The ED had earlier asked him to appear on February 27 but as he failed to appear, he was given a notice again asking him to appear today. He climbed the steps of the ED office waving at the media standing outside. Chief minister’s additional private secretary appearing at the ED office for interrogation is a challenge to the government.

Raveendran informed ED that he could not appear as the assembly session was going on. He did not have any other option as the session had ended yesterday. The ED summoned him for interrogation based on the chats between M Sivasankar, arrested and former principal secretary to the chief minister and Swapna Suresh. Apart from this, the screen shot of the sleazy chats sent to Swapna in the name of Raveendran, were circulated on social media.