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Actor abduction case: Kerala strikes SC to increase trial deadline

By Express News Service

NEW DELHI/KOCHI: The state authorities has approached the Supreme Court looking for to increase the deadline by six months to finish the trial within the sensational actor abduction and rape case wherein film star Dileep is an accused.

The Supreme Court had set February 16 because the deadline to finish the trial.  The transfer comes after the launch of a contemporary investigation following severe allegations made by director P Balachandrakumar in opposition to Dileep. The survivor too had written to the chief minister looking for a contemporary probe.

The prosecution has additionally filed a petition on the Ernakulam chief judicial Justice of the Peace courtroom to report Balachandrakumar’s secret assertion. Ernakulam extra particular classes courtroom, which conducts the trial, has directed the probe officer to file a report on the contemporary investigation on January 20. In the petition filed earlier than the apex courtroom, the federal government stated the trial will not be accomplished on schedule due to the contemporary investigation. 

New probe workforce could also be fashioned

This aside, a brand new particular prosecutor needs to be appointed after the incumbent counsel resigned over the last listening to. In a TV interview, Balachandrakumar claimed that Dileep had watched the video of the sexual assault in his home and that the latter knew the primary accused Sunil Kumar, alias Pulsar Suni, properly.

He additionally alleged that Dileep influenced a few of the key witnesses who turned hostile throughout the trial. Meanwhile, there are stories {that a} new investigation workforce could be fashioned within the case. The resolution was taken after Dileep complained to the chief minister in opposition to probe officer Baiju Paulose. Dileep has additionally filed a contempt of courtroom petition in opposition to the officer on the extra particular classes courtroom.

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