THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: BJP State president K Surendran has repeated his allegation that the chief minister’s office had intervened to save gold smuggling case accused Swapna Suresh from the case.

“The first call that came to Customs to save Swapna was from the chief minister’s office. If we check the call list of Shivashankar, we shall get evidence for this and he tried to help Swapna.

Even in earlier gold smuggling cases, there were interference of top guns and the police should probe all that,” he said.

Surendran added that he was not in the habit of making allegations without solid proofs and if his allegations are wrong, Shivashankar could take legal actions against him.