Thiruvananthapuram/Mumbai: The Mumbai police team on lookout for Binoy Kodiyeri, son of Kerala CPM state Secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan will continue to collect evidence from Kerala on Sunday. The probe team will visit the spots mentioned by the complainant after she had alleged sexual abuse.
The cops are yet to find any leads on the current location of Binoy as the Dindoshi Court in Mumbai is set to make a decision on his anticipatory bail plea on Monday.
During the hearing of the bail plea on Friday, Binoy Kodiyeri's counsel Ashok Gupta argued this was a cooked-up case and an attempt to blackmail his client, while the prosecution, opposing the bail, said all the required evidences are there and have been produced before the court.
After hearing the arguments, the court said it would deliver its ruling on Monday.
In the FIR filed at the Oshiwara police station in Andheri area, a 33-year-old Mumbai-based woman, who hails from Bihar, has alleged that Binoy sexually exploited her for several years on the promise of marriage and claims they also have a child.
She registered the complaint on June 13 after she came to know that he was already married.
According to her complaint, she entered into a relationship with Binoy while working at a dance bar in Dubai in 2008 and now has an eight-year-old child with him. She alleged that till 2015, Binoy even used to send her money every month.
The victim has also handed over some crucial documents, including pictures, to the police.
A Mumbai police team came to Kerala last week to arrest Binoy. But Binoy, who was in Kannur district, has slipped away and his mobile phones have been switched off.
Meanwhile, his father and CPM state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan Saturday sought to distance the party and himself from the case.
Looking visibly uncomfortable as he faced a barrage of questions from the media personnel, Kodiyeri said his son Binoy was an adult and responsible for his actions, adding that he need not expect any protection from him or from the party.
The CPM's stand on the issue had earlier been made clear by its General Secretary Sitaram Yechury, who had stated that the party will not interfere in the matter as it was an issue related to an individual and not to the party, he said.
This is the second time Binoy has courted controversy. A few months ago, he was allegedly involved in a financial fraud case in one of the Gulf countries.
The Mumbai Police had on Thursday served a notice to Binoy, asking him to appear within 72 hours before the Investigating Officers probing the case.
Two Mumbai police personnel, along with two local police personnel, went to Binoy's ancestral home at Thiruvangad in Thalassery in Kannur district and handed over the notice to the relatives.
Binoy has been booked under Indian Penal Code sections 420 (cheating) and 376 (rape) in the case filed in Oshiwara police station at Andheri in Mumbai.
(With inputs from PTI and IANS)
