KOCHI: Padmarajan arraigned in the Palathayi sexual abuse case claimed that the report submitted in the court by the investigation team was without conducting a right probe in the case. There is political enmity behind the case. So, his plea filed in the court sought a CBI probe.

The court sought the stand of the CBI and the state government in the case. The court said the plea would be considered within three weeks. The case is that Kuniyil Padmarajan, a teacher sexually abused a ten-year-old girl studying in his school in Kannur on March 16, 2020. Padmarajan, who was arrested in the case, was not charged POCSO due to lack of scientific evidence. Padmarajan was released on bail on July 16, 2020.