Sounds like shades of Copperfield to me…

A Minister pulled off the vanishing act, quite literally, on Tuesday afternoon. Agriculture Minister K.P. Mohanan played the willing participant yet again in one of magician Gopinath Muthukad’s public performances at the Government College for Women auditorium.

The Minister was chained inside a metal cage in full view of the audience. The box was closed, the straight-faced Minister locked inside, and a few dramatic minutes later when the box was opened, Mr. Mohanan was....

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