The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a petition filed by a survivor in a sexual harassment case during which actor Dileep is an accused, in search of switch of the case to a different decrease court docket.
The sufferer had alleged that Dilip, the eighth accused within the case, had an in depth relationship with the trial decide and her husband.
A bench of Justices Ajay Rastogi and CT Ravikumar stated the Kerala High Court has already selected the difficulty of bias in its judgment.
Rejecting the pleas of the petitioner, the High Court had on September 22 held that it was of the agency view that its apprehension about doable interference with the honest trial was not justified.
“Probably, the continual discussions and debates performed and being performed by varied information channels for a number of days and months in relation to this matter have created some misconceptions concerning the listening to of the case, and it’s evidently most of the people at giant together with the petitioner. Influenced the general public.
The High Court had stated, “Though I feel that the petitioner has filed this petition in full truth, I have all reasons to believe that she is a victim of such misconceptions and allegations made by the media.”
The petitioner had argued that if the trial court docket was not modified, it could not get justice and the trial wouldn’t be honest.
Incidentally, it was on the petition of the survivor that the High Court had arrange a particular court docket with a girl decide for the trial in 2018, which started in 2020.
The sufferer had additionally alleged in her petition that there have been a number of cases the place the Special Public Prosecutor was unable to proceed with the trial and repeated and chronic makes an attempt have been made on Dileep’s half to affect and intimidate the witnesses.
It had stated that when the decide was transferred from a particular court docket as Principal Sessions Judge, the matter was additionally transferred to his court docket and claimed that the switch of the case by an administrative order was not authorized.
Survivor, an actress who has labored in Tamil and Telugu movies, was allegedly kidnapped and molested inside her automobile for 2 hours, which compelled her into the car on the night time of February 17, 2017. and later absconded. a busy space.
According to the prosecution, all the act was filmed by the accused to blackmail the actress.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
