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Was Kerala minister Saseendran a victim of honey trap?

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Former Kerala transport minister Saseendran may have been a victim of honey-trapping if a facebook post by a journalist is anything to go by. A former reporter with the channel that aired the audio clip of the former minister engaging in an inappropriate conversation with a woman claimed that the channel 'targetted' the minister along with other VIPs. Saseendran had quit from his post after the audio clipping was made public and now the police are on the hunt for the woman who he allegedly had the conversation with.

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A group of women journalists in Kerala met Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday along with the facebook post of the channel's former employee who resigned questioning the channel's ethics. While the government has ordered a judicial probe into the matter, the police are also investigating complaints with regard to the case.

Investigating authorities are on the trail of the woman whose conversation with the minister was edited by the channel before airing the same. Police suspect that the woman may have led the minister to speak in a particular way and may have been suggestive. The investigation so far led the police to believe that the woman who had engaged the minister in a conversation may have been closely associated with the channel.

The police are also considering Al Neema Ashraf's Facebook post where she alleges that the channel's bosses had formed a team of five reporters to 'trap' the minister along with many other VIPs. Ashraf claimed that she quit the channel after she felt disgusted as a reporter and a woman. Police suspect that the plan to trap Saseendran may have been hatched over six months.

Police claim that the unnamed woman, whose conversation with the minister was made public, approached him on the pretext of covering the transport beat. The duo is said to have exchanged numbers after which they kept in constant touch. Police suspect that the controversial phone call was made when Saseendran was in Goa. The fact that the channel muted the woman's conversation make the police suspicious of whether she spoke in a suggestive manner.

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