Suryanelli:Victim's plea against Kurien dismissed

In a major relief to Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman P J Kurien, the Sessions Court here today dismissed a petition filed by the victim in the Suryanelli sex case seeking inclusion of the Congress leader in the case.
The victim in the 17-year-old case had moved the court against Kurien based on the 'revelation' of the sole convict in the case Dharmarajan, who had claimed in a media interview a few months back that he had taken Kurien in a car to a guest house at Kumily where the girl was lodged.
Dharmarajan had later retracted the claim in the court through an affidavit stating he had never met Kurien and he was in an inebriated state when he made the charge through the media.

Sessions Judge Abraham Mathew in his order held that the victim's plea for inclusion of Kurien in the sex scandal case was not maintainable.