Enforcement Directorate teams are carrying out raids in Kozhikode in the CMRL pay-off case — an investigation that has now moved into the family circle of Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. The searches follow an earlier round of raids that touched the Chief Minister's own residences and the home of his daughter's husband.
Kozhikode raids are a follow-up to May 27 searches
According to the original report, the Kozhikode action is a follow-up to searches conducted on May 27. That operation covered three family-linked locations: Pinarayi's then-rented house in Thiruvananthapuram, his ancestral home in Kannur, and the residence of his daughter Veena's husband, former Public Works Minister P.A. Mohammed Riyas.
The family at the centre of the probe
Veena, the Chief Minister's daughter, is the name at the centre of the case. Her husband, P.A. Mohammed Riyas, is a former Kerala Public Works Minister. The specific allegations in the CMRL pay-off case, however, have not been laid out in the confirmed record available
