CPM-linked commerce union hits out at Customs after chief ‘threatened’

The ruling CPI (M)-affiliated Kerala Secretariat Employees Association on Monday hit out on the Customs division, days after the state assistant protocol officer — a distinguished chief of the affiliation — alleged he was threatened by the company when questioned in reference to the gold smuggling case final week.
While state assistant protocol officer M S Harikrishnan complained to police that Customs officers had threatened him, his affiliation issued a press release saying that “it would see the hands of the Customs do not raise again against secretariat employees”.
The state protocol workplace is permitted to challenge obligation exemption certificates to the consulates for import with out Customs examination. The protocol workplace additionally handles information associated to international journeys of the Assembly Speaker, ministers and bureaucrats. There was a hearth on the state protocol workplace final 12 months after it got here below the scanner of probe businesses.
Association normal secretary Okay N Ashok Kumar stated Customs is repeatedly harassing the secretariat employees to depose earlier than them towards the state authorities. The commerce union chief stated Customs is a crippled horse and a “bootlicker” of corporates and the Sangh Parivar.
CPI(M) has mounted an assault on Customs after the company determined to query Speaker P Sreeramakrishnan in reference to the smuggling of foreign exchange in another country. His assistant personal secretary Okay Ayyappan was earlier questioned regardless of an try by the Assembly secretariat to stop the company citing authorized safety.