News person manhandled

The Kozhikode bureau chief of The New Indian Express M.P. Prashanth was manhandled by a group of men, while covering the march taken out by the Youth League and IUML cadre in the city in protest against the recent media coverage linking Industries Minister P.K. Kunhalikutty in the ice cream parlour sex scandal.

Minister abuses minor girl

Regina, the girl who was involved in the infamous ice cream sex scandal, revealed that she was sexually exploited by Industries Minister and IUML general secretary P.K. Kunhalikutty three times at separate places in 1996.

She told mediapersons that Kunhalikutty's co-brother Raoof had given her Rs 2.25 lakh to retract from her earlier statement before the court naming Kunhalikutty.