Thiruvananthapuram Months ahead of assembly polls in Kerala, the LDF government has decided to recommend a CBI probe into cases against former chief minister Ommen Chandy and five others filed over allegations of sexual exploitation by a prime accused woman in the sensational solar scam.

The opposition Congress on Sunday dubbed the move as "politically motivated", saying the CPIM-led government could not find anything against the party leaders in the last five years and taken the decision as elections were around the corner, while Chandy asserted he was ready to face any probe.

Union Minister V Muraleedharan also attacked the government, saying the decision for the Central Bureau of Investigation probe had been taken in view of the polls. Protesting the government move, Youth Congress workers took out a march to the Secretariat here and burnt an effigy of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. However, the CPI-M state secretary in-charge A Vijayaraghavan, rejecting the charge of political motivation, told reporters that it was only a natural course of action to "ensure justice to the complainant." After the state government decided to give its consent for the CBI probe, a gazette notification has been issued

The cases against the six, including Chandy, were registered over the past several years and investigated by the Crime Branch police based on a complaint by the woman accused in the multi-crore solar panel scam during the previous UDF government that she was sexually exploited by them in 2012.

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