She made the statement after the ED filed an affidavit in the Kerala High Court claiming that Swapna gave a statement ‘about smuggling of foreign currency at the instance of the Chief Minister and the Assembly Speaker with the help of the Consulate’.
“The questions were posed by ED officials in such a way that it forced Swapna to name the Chief Minister,” the CPO said in the statement.
Following this, another woman police officer, who was on security duty while Swapna was being interrogated came forward and stated that Swapna had been forced to name the Chief Minister in the case.
The woman cop, reportedly, testified that she had heard an ED officer by the name of Radhakrishnan offering to make Swapna an approver in the case if she testified against the Chief Minister.
The cop, according to reports, alleged that the ED officer wanted Swapna to testify that the cash found in the locker of her bank was handed over to her by M Sivasankar, former Principal Secretary to the chief…