KOTTAYAM: The Motor Vehicle Department has initiated action to cancel the driving license of the son of Jose K Mani MP in the death of two brothers in a car accident. As part of this, the officials of the Motor Vehicle Department conducted a preliminary collection of data. The license will be cancelled after receiving the police report. The motor vehicle department said that action will be taken within a week. It confirmed that Jose K Mani's son has a driving license.

After controversy erupted over the action of not mentioning the name of the person who drove the car in the FIR, the police secretly arrested Jose K Mani's son KM Mani Junior (Kunjumani) the next day and later released him on bail. The accident took place on Saturday night near the BSNL office in Manimala.

The police had initially said that the accident occurred on the Manimala-Muvattupuzha road when the bike in which the two brothers were travelling rammed into the car from behind after its driver allegedly applied a sudden brake. However, the testimony of the eyewitness was the exact opposite of this.