An anti-corruption court here on Monday issued notice to a key prosecution witness in the bar licence renewal bribery case asking him to testify whether or not he was willing to be given a lie-detector test by the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau.
Directive to driver
The Inquiry Commissioner and Special Judge, Vigilance, Thiruvananthapuram, ordered Ambili, the driver of Kerala Bar Hotels Association (KBHA) working president Biju Ramesh, to appear before him on May 11.
Mr. Ramesh is the complainant in the corruption case being probed.
Mr. Ramesh had insisted in his deposition, given in private to a magistrate last month, that Mr. Ambili had in April last year chauffeured KBHA president D. Rajkumar Unni to the official residence of Finance Minister K. M. Mani to pay the Minister a part of the bribe he had allegedly demanded for favouring the renewal of licences of 418 “substandard” bars.
Mr. Ambili had also given a comparable statement to the Vigilance
Driver asked to appear before vigilance court on May 11
Bar hotel association office-bears summoned on May 14
