2017 Actress Assault Case: Kerala HC Refuses To Cancel Dileep’s Bail – FilmyVoice
The Kerala Excessive Court docket on Wednesday refused to cancel the bail granted to Malayalam cine actor Dileep within the 2017 actress assault case. The Court docket orders got here on a plea moved by prosecution in 2022 difficult the order of the Further Particular Session Decide, Ernakulam dismissing the State’s plea to cancel the bail granted to Dileep by the Excessive Court docket in 2017.
A single-judge bench of Justice Sophy Thomas mentioned: “Because the trial courtroom has made some observations and findings, it might have a tendency to seem that the realized decide has made up her thoughts as to the destruction of proof, threatening the witness, and many others. alleged by the prosecution.
“It’s clarified that the trial courtroom’s observations and findings within the order are just for the aim of disposal of Crl.MP 891/2022 and it shall not have an effect on appreciation of proof in SC 118/2018 (predominant case). The realized trial decide has to understand the proof in SC 118/2018 independently and untrammeled by any of the observations and findings in Annexure E Order.”
Dileep was arrested on July 10, 2017, and granted bail on October 3, 2017 by the Excessive Court docket.
The prosecution moved the Excessive Court docket contending that Dileep did not observe the bail circumstances and that he and his associates have been indulging in all types of actions, together with destroying proof and influencing prosecution witnesses.
A number one south Indian actress – who subsequently recognized herself – had complained that she had been kidnapped and sexually assaulted by a gang of goons in 2017 who filmed the act to blackmail her.
After the primary accused Sunil was arrested and questioned, Dileep was accused of being the primary conspirator within the case and arrested and was in jail for a number of weeks earlier than strolling out on a bail.