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Updated: Jul 11, 2017 15:22 IST
By Ramesh Babu , Hindustan Times,
Thiruvananthapuram
After five months of intense drama and
suspense, Kerala Police on Monday arrested
Malayalam actor Dileep n connection with the
alleged abduction and rape of a popular south
Indian actor in Kochi.
The woman actor who was returning after a
shooting assignment was abducted and
sexually assaulted on a moving car by a
criminal gang on Feb 17. They let her go after
three-hour ordeal and threatened to release
the video if she approached the police.
During the attack the main accused Pulsar
Suni had told the victim that he was given a
quotation (like a supari crime) and he was
forced to do this. However the gutsy actor
complained and the police arrested all
accused directly involved in the crime. But
there were strong speculations that they
carried out the dirty job' at the behest of
someone.
State police chief Loknath Behra confirmed
the arrest of Dileep. He said the police have
got clinching evidence to prove the
involvement of the actor. Two weeks back the
SIT probing the case had questioned the actor
for more than 13 hours. His director friend
Nadirsha and manager Appunni will also be
arrested.
Last month, Dileep's name surfaced in a jail
inmate's letter who shared the cell with Suni.
Since then, Dileep has been facing a lot of
heat. While Suni and his accomplices were
arrested within a week of the kidnapping,
police stumbled upon the conspiracy angle
last week.
"The entire conspiracy was hatched almost a
year back. The actor's phone calls with some
of the accused really nailed him. Preliminary
investigation shows personal enmity behind
the entire incident, said a senior police officer
adding that actor will be produced before a
magistrate later in the night.
The case took a new turn two weeks back
after Dileep filed a police complaint alleging
that one of the jail inmates of the main
accused (Pulsar Suni) Vishnu had threatened
to cough up Rs 1.50 crore immediately or else
he would reveal his role in the conspiracy.
Mobile phone was smuggled inside the jail by
one of the friends of the main accused.
The SIT had secured details of phone calls
Suni made from the jail. He reportedly called
Nadirshah at least thrice and one of the calls
lasted more than eight minutes. Suni made
another call to Dileep's manager Appunni.
Later the police found that the audio record of
the phone call submitted by Dileep was
heavily edited.
The SIT later recovered a two-minute video
clip showing the brutal sexual assault on the
victim. Later DNA examination of sperm marks
on the dress the actor confirmed the
involvement of the main accused. Later SIT
also raided Kavya Madhavan's (Dileep's
second wife) house and cloth outlet in Kochi.
According to police sources Suni, a hardcore
criminal involved in more than 20 cases,
refused to cave in after intense questioning.
Later the police reportedly sent another
criminal to his cell as his cellmate and he
became pally with him and divulged details of
the larger conspiracy behind the crime. Later
the police pieced together evidence and
revealed the plot with a filmy touch.
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