A former particular prosecutor with the Nationwide Investigation Company, who was out on bail in a sexual assault case from 2023, was discovered useless in Kollam on Sunday in what seems to be a case of suicide.
Police stated the physique of P G Manu, 54, who additionally served as senior state authorities pleader within the Excessive Court docket, was discovered hanging at a rented home in Kollam metropolis. A local of Piravom in Ernakulam, Manu had been staying in Kollam for the previous couple of months.
In November 2023, Ernakulam police had registered a case towards Manu on costs of allegedly sexually assaulting a girl, who approached him for assist with a 2018 rape case. Subsequently, he was pressured to give up as senior authorities pleader on the HC, a put up he held since 2021. Previous to that, Manu served as a particular prosecutor for the NIA in Kochi.
Manu surrendered after the Supreme Court docket rejected his anticipatory bail plea. He had been in judicial custody for practically three months till the HC in March granted him bail.
Days earlier than he allegedly took the acute step, a video through which Manu was purportedly seen tendering an apology to a household had surfaced on social media. It was claimed that he confronted a contemporary allegation of misconduct and the apology was associated to that incident.
Referring to the 2023 case, police stated lady and her mother and father had approached Manu for assist in quashing the 2018 rape case because it had been pending for 5 years. In October 2023, they visited his workplace. In keeping with the complainant, she was allegedly sexually abused thrice by the accused – the primary two occasions at his workplace after which at her home.
The girl had alleged in her criticism that after listening to particulars of the pending case, Manu requested her mother and father to step out of his room, bolted his workplace door from the within and sexually abused her. He additionally allegedly warned her that with out his assist, she may change into an accused within the case.
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