While the counsel for Dileep strongly opposed handing over the memory card for scientific examination, the counsels for the other two parties vehemently argued for it and the court agreed for the same this morning.
Recently, Crime Branch interrogated actor Dileep for two consecutive days. He was accused of conspiring with others to murder police officials who had been investigating the actor assault case. Kavya Madhavan is the second wife of Dileep, whom he married after divorce with his first wife another frontline actress Manju Warrier.
Dileep has already been served a notice to appear before them which might take place on Monday (March 28). It was a moral victory for the team when the High Court first refused to suspend the further probe and later a stay sought by the actor into the probe was also nixed.
Bhavana Menon was kidnapped in 2017 when she was returning home from a shooting location and was subjected to sexual assault by a gang of men. The incident snowballed into a major controversy after the main accused, Pulsar Sunil, revealed that popular Malayalam actor Dileep was behind the assault. Dileep was arrested and is now on bail.
In his petition, actor Dileep states he is a victim of the conspiracy and since there is no evidence against him, the FIR in the case should be quashed and if that's not possible, then the case should be referred to the CBI.
Already in the dock and a new case in which the actor Dileep is alleged to have conspired to do away with the investigating officers in the actress abduction case, on Monday, the relatives of Saleesh Vettiyatil filed a complaint demanding re-investigation into his death by accident.
Popular because of the comic characters he plays on screen, Dileep has been in the news for the wrong reasons after a frontline South Indian heroine complained that she had been abducted and sexually assaulted by a gang of goons in 2017 and certain scenes were filmed to blackmail her.
After recording his statement with the Crime Branch, Edavanakkad told the media that he was summoned to identify voices in the sound clip. The agency had, on January 9, registered the case on a complaint filed by an investigating officer based on a purported audio clip of Dileep, which was released by a TV channel in which the actor was allegedly heard conspiring to attack the official.
The Crime Branch had on January 9 registered the case on a complaint filed by an investigating officer based on an audio clip purportedly of Dileep, which was released by a TV channel, in which the actor was allegedly conspiring to attack the official.
Malayalam superstar Dileep, who is a popular actor for the comedy characters, turned villain in real life when a frontline South Indian heroine complained that she was abducted and sexually assaulted by a gang of goons in 2007 and certain scenes were filmed to blackmail her. The incident occurred in 2017 and the prosecution charged that Dileep was the main conspirator in the case.
The Kerala High Court ordered that the actor should not be arrested till January 27 and on that day the director-general of prosecution should in a sealed cover hand over the details of the three-day questioning.
Malayalam actor Dileep was arrested in 2017 and lodged in prison in a case related to a gang sexually assaulting a frontline heroine of South Indian movies and filming the scenes.
It was last week that the police registered a fresh case under non-bailable clauses against Dileep, his brother Anoop, his brother-in-law Sooraj and other family members.
The attack on Bhavana Menon reportedly took place in 2017 when she was returning to Kochi after a shooting assignment on the outskirts of the city. Her vehicle was allegedly waylaid, and she was abducted by a criminal gang in a closed van. On Sunday, the Crime Branch wing of Kerala Police registered a case against actor Dileep.
Bhavana Menon was allegedly abducted and molested in Ernakulam district of Kerala when she was on her way back home from a film's shoot on February 17, 2017. Malayalam actor Dileep is said to be the main accused in the case. Several celebrities including Nimisha Sajayan singer Chinmayi Sripada, Prithviraj, Geetu Mohandas, Parvathy Thiruvothu from the south Industry expressed their solidarity with the actress.
Last week, the police had registered a non-bailable case against Dileep, his brother Anoop, his brother-in-law Sooraj and other family members. The case was registered following a revelation by a close friend of the actor and Malayalam movie director Balachandra Kumar.
Dileep was arrested in 2017 and lodged in a prison in a case related to a gang sexually assaulting a front-line heroine of South Indian movies and filming the scenes. Police later tracked the gang to Dileep and the actor was arrested in July 2017 and jailed. After two months in jail, he was released on bail and the trial in the case is on.
Seven persons, including Malayalam actor Dileep and key accused 'Pulsar' Suni, were arrested in 2017 in connection with the Kerala actress abduction case.
Actor Dileep was arrested on July 10, 2017 and let out on bail on October 3 after 85 days in custody.
Senior actor Dileep is an accused in a kidnapping case that took place last year. The actor was in jail for 85 days and is now out on bail.
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