Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy today appeared before the Judicial Commission probing the Solar panel scam. He denied the charges that he and his office had any role in the scandal.
Chandy, who appeared before the Justice Sivarajan Commission which held a sitting in Thiruvananthapuram, said the state had not incurred any loss due to the scam.
Mr. Chandy also pointed that he had not met Saritha, one of the two accused in the scam along with Sreedharan Nair, who made the first complaint in the case.
The Chief Minister also made it clear that neither he nor his office had helped the fraudulent solar energy company Team Solar, founded by Saritha and her co-accused Biju Radhakrishnan. This is the first time a Chief Minister in Kerala appeared before a Judicial Commission.
Solar scam pertains to cheating of several persons worth crores of rupees by Saritha and Radhakrishnan by offering solar panel solutions. The two allegedly canvassed business by using high-level names including that of Mr. Chandy. While Saritha was granted bail after remaining behind bars for nearly nine months, Radhakrishnan is still in jail.