Kasaragod: In a blow to the opposition Congress-led UDF in Kerala sooner than Native body polls subsequent month, an IUML legislator M C Kamaruddin changed into arrested on Saturday in connection with circumstances registered in opposition to him in a multi-crore monetary fraud referring to to gold jewellery alternate.

The Manjeshwaram MLA changed into called in for questioning by the Special Investigation Team this morning and his arrest changed into recorded by night, police mentioned.

The arrest changed into below sections 406 (criminal breach of belief) and 420 (cheating) of the Indian Penal Code, provisions of Kerala Protection of Pursuits of Depositors in Monetary Institutions Act and share 3 and 5 of the banning of unregulated deposit schemes act.

“He has been arrested below three circumstances and presently, the probe crew is investigating 77 circumstances in opposition to him,” a senior police legitimate urged .

Then once more, police mentioned as many as 115 circumstances had been registered in opposition to the MLA in Kasaragod and Kannur districts on complaints from traders, basically workers of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), a foremost ally of the United Democratic Entrance (UDF).

Whereas UDF convener M M Hassan mentioned the arrest changed into politically motivated, Kerala PCC president Mullapally Ramachandran mentioned “let the law catch its course.”

Kamaruddin, who is the chairman of Style Gold Jewelry, furthermore maintained that his arrest changed into “politically motivated.”

“That is a politically motivated case. My case is organising in the Excessive Court on Monday. No seek for changed into issued to me sooner than the arrest. The government is making an try to masks its faults by racy me.

They may be able to’t crash me by any of this,” Kamaruddin urged newshounds as he changed into being taken to a clinical institution for COVID-19 test soon after his arrest.

One other district chief of IUML, T Okay Pookoya Thangal, who is furthermore the Managing Director of Style Gold, round which the fraud has taken space, changed into furthermore identified as to the SP space of job in Kasaragod,police mentioned

The IUML management had given the MLA six months time to repay the amounts taken from the traders.

Following the arrest, the IUML has called for an urgent assembly at Kozhikode on Sunday.