Case over allegations of Keralam CM’s second marriage: city police start investigation

The Kochi city police have started probing the case against Reporter TV managing director Anto Augustine over allegations that Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan had entered into a second marriage while his existing marriage was subsisting.

Mr. Augustine has been named the first accused in the case, which was originally registered by the Cybercrime Police, Thiruvananthapuram City, based on a complaint filed by Congress spokesperson Raju P. Nair. It was since then transferred to the Kochi City Police, considering that the alleged place of occurrence of the controversial remarks made by Mr. Augustine was Kalamassery.

The FIR, registered as a Zero FIR, invokes Sections 336(4) (forgery intended to harm reputation), 337 (forgery of a public record or register), 61(2) (criminal conspiracy), 356(3) (defamation), 340(2) (using a forged document as genuine) and 339 (possession of a forged public document, knowing it to be forged) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023.