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Vijayan's former Secy grilled by NIA, CM brushes off queries
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Vijayan's former Secy grilled by NIA, CM brushes off queries
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Thiruvananthapuram, July 23 (TIWN) Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's former Principal Secretary M. Sivasankar on Thursday appeared before the NIA in connection with the gold smuggling case and was questioned for around five hours.

Earlier in the day, the NIA officials served notice to Sivasankar at his residence here, asking him to appear before them at the Police Club.

Sivsankar reached the venue in his private car around 3.55 p.m., but did not respond to questions from the waiting media persons whether it was the NIA or the Customs.

At 9 p.m, accompanied by a large number of police officials, he was escorted to his car in which he had come with his relative and despite a volley of questions, he kept silent, got into the car and left for home.

According to reports, the NIA and Customs are expected to call him again as the probe is continuing.

The Customs Department, which began the probe in the case last week, had questioned Sivasankar for over nine hours.

Vijayan, when asked about the development, sharply said: "I have already made this clear. Let the NIA do their job, I have already said about this before also."

The gold smuggling case first surfaced when P.S. Sarith, a former employee of the UAE consulate here, was arrested by the Customs Department on July 5 when he was facilitating smuggling of 30 kg gold in the diplomatic baggage from Dubai to Thiruvananthapuram.

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