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Shalu Menon  in Police custody

The police arrested popular Television actress and danseuse Shalu Menon with regard to the much hyped solar scam case on Friday. Shalu Menon, highly connected politically and a popular film personality in the state, had managed to evade the police ever since news of the scam first broke. Shalu was arrested up from her home at Changanassery near Kottayam, and she was taken to nearby Chengannur Police station for questioning by the team of special investigation headed by Assistant DGP Hemachandran. 

The scam, pertaining to fraudulent deals running into huge sums pushed by Saritha Nair and accomplice Biju, has brought the office of Keral Chief minister under a cloud with the arrest of one of his close personal aides and removal of two others from his staff. The development is of significance since Shalu has been in the news ever since the scam broke out last month for her alleged links with Biju Radhakrishnan, the prime accused in the case.

 The Police says, they have got clear evidence against the actress involvement in the solar scam. She is arrested on the complaint filed against her by Rafiq Aly. The Thrissur First Class magistrate earlier this Thursday, had stated that they will be charging case on Shalu Menon, with regard to the solar scam. The reports says kingpin Biju Radhakrishnan embezzled Rs 25 lakh from NRK businessman Rafiq Aly, with the help of Shalu Menon. Speaking to media at her residence at Perunna in Changanassery, she had earlier said that she was unaware of Biju's background and his tainted business activities. She added that she and her mother got acquainted with Biju around nine months ago and maintained a good relationship with him. "Let them produce evidence. I would file defamation suits against media firms that publish baseless reports that denigrate an unmarried woman," the actress said at the time. But now the evidence seems to have proved her wrong.