The Commission will formally put up its recommendation to the Government only on Tuesday. Though technically it will be the prerogative of the State Government to decide on its recommendation, the Government may find it hard to dismiss the recommendation casually, considering the delicate and politically sensitive questions involved.

Sources said that the Commission's recommendation will highlight that the local police have been clearly dragging their feet in the sordid affairallegedly involving some of the State's political bigwigs -- including a powerful former Minister -- bureaucrats and high-flying businessmen, among others.

The Commission is also to build up its recommendation around the fact that the tentacles of the racket spread far beyond the State's borders, which necessitated the national investigating agency to take over the probe. It has also taken a serious view of the bizarre developments, ever since it received the first petition related to the racket a few months ago.

Shrugging off flak from a section of its own members who were averse to the idea for reasons that are not difficult to understand, the Commission had heard a large number of concerned individuals including victims who had strangely backtracked from their statements soon after deposing before the Commission.

The Commission chairperson and eminent social activist Sugathakumari had been constantly subjected to harassment and humiliation ever since it began looking into the racket. Sugathakumarihas stated that she has been getting death threats over telephone and by post, ever since.

Though two former city Mayors of Kozhikode had found their careers on the chopping block and a high-profile IAS official has been suspended since the probe began, there have been widespread apprehensions that the local police were soft-pedalling with regard to the real bigwigs involved, even after their names had figured in the police reports connected to the probe which had begun in August last year.

There have also been speculations that the sex racket issue was being used to drive home some hard political bargains in exchange of protection, particularly on the eve of the recent Lok Sabha polls. Particularly since one of the key persons named in the police reports, but never actually declared to be an accused, commands a good deal of leverage in the State's politics.

While legal opinion remains divided on whether or not the sex angle per se would stand in court, the police attempt to build up related casesfocusing on the various acts of corruption facilitated or manipulated by those involved using the racket, has also made little progress.

The courts have since granted bail to almost all the accused in the racket.

The High Court, on its part, had also subjected the police to severe censure about the way they have been going about the probe.

In any case, while the local police have been unable to file a chargesheet all these months, their request to the State Government to urgently move the Supreme Court for getting the stringently adverse comments by the High Court overruled to enable further investigations, has been lying frozen for several months now.