Dileep claims in Kerala HC newest case towards him, others ‘manufactured’

By PTI

KOCHI: Actor Dileep on Thursday claimed within the Kerala High Court that the most recent case, accusing him and members of his household of threatening officers probing the sexual assault of an actress in 2017, was a “manufactured complaint” and a “complete imagination” of the police.

The actor’s attorneys argued earlier than Justice Gopinath P that there was no conspiracy to kill or assault the officers investigating the 2017 case and the allegations had been “concocted” by the police to get him of their custody.

Senior advocate B Raman Pillai and advocates Philip T Varghese and Thomas T Varghese, who represented the actor, contended that the police would go to any extent to lure him. “Stories have been managed and introduced by the police,” they argued in court docket.

With regard to the assertion given by movie director Balachandra Kumar based mostly on which the most recent case has been registered, the actor’s attorneys claimed that Kumar had “animosity” in direction of Dileep for not acquiescing to his calls for.

Kumar had lately made some startling revelations towards Dileep within the actress assault case by the media. He has additionally claimed that there’s proof together with digital ones to show that Dileep had influenced the witnesses within the 2017 case.

Meanwhile, a magisterial court docket in Aluva, which was handed over the telephones produced within the excessive court docket by the actor and the opposite accused within the newest case, on Thursday despatched the mobiles for evaluation to a forensic lab in Thiruvananthapuram which comes below the state police.

In the listening to earlier than the excessive court docket in the course of the day, the arguments on behalf of Dileep and the opposite accused for grant of anticipatory bail within the newest case concluded for now.

The police, represented by Director General of Prosecution T A Shaji and extra public prosecutor P Narayanan, will start arguments on Friday towards grant of anticipatory bail to the actor.

The actress-victim, who has labored in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam movies, was kidnapped and allegedly molested in her automobile for 2 hours by a few of the accused, who had pressured their means into the car on the night time of February 17, 2017 and later escaped in a busy space.

The whole act was filmed by a few of the accused to blackmail the actress. There are 10 accused within the case and police have arrested seven. Dileep was arrested subsequently and launched on bail.