Kerala High Court on Tuesday adjourned the anticipatory bail plea actor dileep and 5 others, until January 21, had been booked for allegedly threatening the investigating officers probing the sexual assault of a Malayalam actress in 2017.
It additionally prolonged the actor’s interim safety from arrest until Friday.
Justice Gopinath P mentioned the matter can be heard on Friday after the prosecution sought extra time.
The court docket on January 14, whereas contemplating the anticipatory bail of Dileep and others, had sought the recorded assertion of movie director Balachandra Kumar within the contemporary case in opposition to the actor.
Kumar, who just lately made some stunning revelations Recently, within the case of assault on the actress, in opposition to Dilip, by means of the media, he had additionally recorded his assertion within the risk case earlier than the Crime Branch wing.
Apart from Dileep, his youthful brother – P Shivakumar – and brother-in-law – TN Suraj – have additionally moved the excessive court docket, searching for the identical aid.
The crime department had registered the case on January 9 following a grievance by an investigating officer on the idea of an purported audio clip of Dileep launched by a TV channel just lately, during which the actor was discovered allegedly plotting to assault the officer. was heard.
The actor and 5 others had been booked underneath numerous provisions of the Indian Penal Code, together with sections 116 (abetment), 118 (concealment of design to commit offence), 120B (prison conspiracy), 506 (prison intimidation), and 34 (prison act dedicated). by many).
The joint petition filed by the three claimed that the grievance made in opposition to them by the officer – Deputy SP (Crime Branch) Baiju Pauloz was “false”.
He has argued that the allegations within the FIR registered on the idea of the grievance are “completely false and baseless”.
The sufferer – who has acted in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam movies – was kidnapped and allegedly molested for 2 hours inside her automotive, which was pressured into the car on the night time of February 17, 2017. and later ran away. in a busy space.
Some of the accused filmed the complete appearing to blackmail the actress.
There are 10 accused on this case and initially seven individuals had been arrested by the police. Dileep was later arrested and later launched on bail.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
