The Kerala High Court Thursday granted Malayalam actor Dileep and 4 others safety from arrest until subsequent Wednesday (February 2) within the case pertaining to the alleged conspiracy to kill the cops who had probed the kidnapping and sexual assault case of a girl actor during which Dileep is an accused.
The court docket additionally posted the anticipatory bail pleas for subsequent Wednesday after the prosecution sought extra time to investigate “digital evidences” the Crime Branch has gathered to date.
The Crime Branch, which is probing the case associated to the conspiracy, had questioned Dileep and others for 33 hours unfold over three days since final Sunday. While contemplating the anticipatory bail pleas of the accused, the High Court had allowed the Crime Branch to query the accused.
The court docket had prevented their arrest until January 27 and had informed the prosecution to furnish a report in a sealed cowl. Accordingly, the prosecution submitted the report Thursday.
The Crime Branch had served a discover to Dileep to submit a number of devices, together with a number of cellphones, which the investigating crew couldn’t get well from him. Dileep had knowledgeable the investigating official that he had handed over such devices for forensic examination by way of his advocate “so that the data in the gadgets are not be tampered with”.
Earlier this month, the Crime Branch had registered a case towards Dileep and 5 others, together with his brother Anoop and brother-in-law Sooraj, alleging that they’d deliberate to kill the officers who had investigated the 2017 case of abduction and sexual assault of an actor.
An FIR within the alleged conspiracy case was registered based mostly on info offered by Dileep’s estranged good friend and movie director Balachandrakumar, who stated Dileep hatched the conspiracy on November 15, 2017. Dileep stated that the conspiracy case was fabricated.
Quoting Balachandrakumar, the FIR within the alleged conspiracy case states: “…Pointing his fingers on the visuals of AV George (then Kochi metropolis police commissioner), Dileep stated you 5 officers are going to undergo…Sojan, Sudarasan, Sandhya, Baiju Poulose, you then. The hand of Sudarasan, who manhandled me, must be chopped off.”
According to the FIR, the conspiracy to focus on the cops occurred at Dileep’s home in Aluva in Ernakulam district a month after he was launched on bail within the sexual assault case. Balachandrakumar, the FIR stated, had straight witnessed the conspiracy being hatched.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
