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The note says Kurien is not an accused in the Suryanelli rape case in which the Supreme Court delivered its judgement recently. "His name was not even in the FIR. The recent Supreme Court judgement in the aforesaid case does not, in any way, affect the complete exoneration of Prof P J Kurien of all allegations by the same court in 2007," it says. The note goes on to say that "it still is an established fact before the court of law that he (Kurien) could not have gone from Thiruvalla, where he was located, to Kumili, the alleged place of crime and have returned to his residence in the proven time." "Imagine a Union Minister, travelling from Delhi to his home district in Kerala and from there going to his previous constituency, where he is well-known, travelling more than four hours one-way, to a Panchayat Rest House situated in a congested open market place, to commit this sort of crime, the impossibility of which has already been confirmed by the three enquiries and the Kerala High Court," it says. "...Therefore, none of the scandalous, legally baseless allegations which are flying around in the media question the established fact of impossibility of Prof Kurien's presence at the alleged scene of crime," the note says. It also questions CPI(M) leader V S Achuthanandan, asking why he did not file a review petition in the court when he was the Kerala Chief Minister. "Even not a word of dissent was there. Now the girl is being used as a tool by his (Kurien) political adversaries," the note adds. Last week, Kurien had met Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari and explained his position.