HC Junks Plea To Stay SFIO Case Against CM Vijayan's Daughter

New Delhi/ Thiruvananthapuram: In a jolt to Veena Vijayan, daughter of Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused a stay of the probe by the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) into allegations of her (now defunct) IT firm Exalogic receiving monthly gratification to the tune of Rs 2.70 crore from Kochi-based Cochin Minerals and Rutile Ltd (CMRL), for mining sanctions, As a bench of Justice Girish Kathpalia took up the case, the counsel for SFIO pointed out that the charge sheet has already been filed at a court in Kochi.

At this, the court said that there is nothing else to be done. But as the judge was closing the case, senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for the petitioner CMRL, pointed out that when this case was previously heard by Justice Subramaniom Prasad, the SFIO had orally informed the court that they would not take further action.

On Sibal’s mention, the court, after perusal of the papers, pointed out that there is no mention of such a thing according to the judicial records before the court.