Kochi, Dec 5 (PTI) Expelled Congress MLA Rahul Mamkootathil, facing allegations of sexual assault from two different women, on Friday moved the Kerala High Court seeking an interim protection from arrest.

A sessions court in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday rejected his plea for anticipatory bail in the first case of rape and forced abortion registered against him last week.

Subsequently, a second rape case was lodged against him on Wednesday based on the complaint of a second woman, a resident of Bengaluru.

Following the rejecting of his anticipatory bail plea, the Congress, which had suspended him earlier, expelled him from the party.

Mamkootathil, who has been absconding since the registration of the first rape case against him, has claimed in his plea in the High Court that he was in

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