Gold smuggling probe improper: Kerala CM to PM

Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 17

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday complained to Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the manner in which national probe agencies were handling the gold smuggling case, claiming it was not in tune with generally accepted norms and sought his urgent intervention.

Vijayan, earlier this month, had slammed the course of the probe and had said he would write to Modi expressing the state government’s displeasure.

In his letter to the PM, which came a day after the ruling Left Democratic Front bucked the anti-incumbency trend to retain the edge in the civic polls that it had in 2015, he sought Modi’s intervention to rein in the agencies, which, he said, were going in the wrong direction and have caused lot of heartburn to committed state officials who feel they were being hunted.—IANS