THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A plea has been filed against former minister K T Jaleel for harshly criticizing Lokayukta Justice Cyriac Thomas. The Lawyers’ Congress has filed a contempt of court plea in the Lokayukta. A complaint has also been lodged with the DGP.

Lawyers’ Congress office bearer advocate Rajeev Charachira filed the plea alleging that Jaleel's posts were deliberately blemishing the Lokayukta. Advocate Rajeev Charachira demanded that there are no legal evidences for the allegations he levelled and so should impose contempt of court.

Apart from the DGP, a complaint has been lodged against Jaleel with the Kasargod district police chief. Jaleel alleged that Justice was a person who will go to any extreme if paid well and is a knife found by the UDF to stab Pinarayi Vijayan.

Jaleel had alleged in the post that Cyriac Joseph had helped to bail out a UDF leader and in return bargained hard to make his sister-in-law Dr Jhansi James the vice chancellor of MG University. Jaleel alleged sharing a copy of the verdict in the 2005 ice cream parlor case involving Kunhalikutty. Justice Cyriac Joseph was also a member of the bench which ruled in favor of Kunhalikutty.

Jaleel also shared a translation of a dissent note written by the then opposition leader of the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj and leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley against the appointment of Cyriac Joseph as a member of the National Human Rights Commission in 2013. During the first Pinarayi government, the verdict against Jaleel was pronounced by Justice Cyriac Joseph. Jaleel made the allegations against the Lokayukta at a time when the opposition was protesting against the government's current Lokayukta ordinance.