Months after he was forced to ignominiously resign over a honey-trap conducted by Mangalam Television, former Kerala Minister AK Saseendran has got a clean chit from the PS Antony Commission probing the case.
In its report, the Commission has pinned a series of charges on Mangalam TV, while absolving Saseendran of any wrongdoing in the case.
On 26 March, the newly launched Malayalam news channel Mangalam TV aired an audio clip that it claimed was a conversation between Saseendran and a woman who had approached him for help on some issue. The clip featured the voice of a man claimed to be Saseendran, but did not give the other half of the conversation, featuring the woman's voice. The channel alleged that Saseendran had called the woman and demanded sexual favours in return for the help he provided.