Thiruvananthapuram: A Thiruvananthapuram court on Wednesday granted bail to expelled Congress MLA Rahul Mamkootathil in the second sexual assault case registered against him, offering temporary legal relief even as investigations continue in two other cases.

The bail order was delivered two days after the court reserved its decision on Mamkootathil’s anticipatory bail plea on Monday, issuing an oral direction to the investigation team not to take any coercive or serious action against him until the order was pronounced.

The relief followed intensified legal and police action after the registration of a second rape case based on a fresh complaint.

According to the complainant’s testimony, she was sexually assaulted despite pleading for mercy and physically clinging to the accused in a b

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