Thiruvananthapuram, Wednesday, February 1, 2012: Chief Minister Oommen Chandy today opined that the investigation into the controversy regarding the alleged surveillance of email ids belonging to minority community in the State was progressing on right track.

Speaking to the presspersons here on Wednesday, Chandy added that the probe report on the e-mail scandal has not been submitted yet. Biju, a Sub-inspector belonging to the Police Headquarters High-tech cell was suspended in connection with the controversy.

S Biju, was sacked for handing over fabricated documents from police Head quarters relating to the e-mail surveillance to Madhyamam weekly. Madhyamam, had reported that email ids of leaders, activists, professionals, students and journalists from the minority community in Kerala were subjected to surveillance by the Special Branch of Kerala Police.

The report alleged that it was an attempt at religious profiling as out of the 268 e-mail accounts, 258 belonged to Muslims. It is said that none among them had any previous criminal backgrounds and so there was no clarity as to why they were put under surveillance.