Hundreds of angered activists of CPI( M) and followers of the former chief minister of Kerala attacked the car of the enforcement directorate in which several officers were sitting, hitting the car vigorously until the officers were compelled to run awayfrom scene, desperately.
There were hundreds of policemen guarding the residence of the former CM Punarayi Vijayan’s daughter Veena By jayan and those who reached the venue with the ED team.
The car was damaged by the angered activists who literally pounced on the car of ED officers and repeatedly hit the car raising anti ED slogans.
The ED officers have yesterday refused to raid the former CM’s house or his daughter’s fearing retaliation.
As soon as they reached the residence of the former Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan’sdsughter’s residence they confronted an angered crowd raising slogans and hitting the ED car not allowing the officers to come out of the car to conduct raid at VeenaVijayan’s residence one of the accused in the money laundering case.
The ED today raided ten other locations in Kerala in a case of money laundering filed against the former CM Punarayi Vijayan and her daughter Veena Vijayan including her associates accusing them of collecting unaccounted money from party through illegal means. However, the formerCM’s daughter and her associates refused the charges as politically motivated as they say that they had rendered the IT services to the company from whom they recieved the money.
The ED denied this statement saying that they are telling a lie and have received the money illagally.
The activists of CPI( M) were so badly infuriated and angered that they hit the car and its window panes, side mirrors with sticks and smashed the front and back panes.
Several policemen were also injured in the melee. However, no one was injured among the ED officers.
The followers of former CM Pinarayi Vijayan and CPI ( M) activists were terming this action as a politically vindictive. The Kerala High Court had yesterday refused to intervene in this case.
Now, there are reports that the enforcement directorate is likely to get the FIR registered against the accused by singling them out from various CCTV footages and the media channels, to punish them stringently.
