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The Special Investigation Team (SIT) which probed the 2017 histrion rape lawsuit did not mention Sreelakshmi, a pistillate whom Pulsar Suni, the convict, contacted and messaged adjacent portion helium was travelling with the subsister aft abducting her, arsenic a witness, according to the judgement successful the case.
In her judgment, Special Judge Honey M. Varghese, who acquitted histrion Dileep successful the lawsuit and convicted six others, observed that the information that Sreelakshmi was not cited arsenic a witnesser “cast uncertainty successful the prosecution case, particularly considering the assertion of the accused that the visuals were captured arsenic portion of a quotation astatine the lawsuit of a lady.”
Sreelakshmi was besides recovered sending messages to Suni adjacent 30 minutes earlier the alleged signaling of the video. She besides made calls to Suni aft his apprehension connected February 23, the tribunal found.
Six calls, 7 messages
The justice noted that determination were incoming messages from Sreelakshmi to Suni’s telephone till 3.44 p.m. connected February 17, 2017, the day of the committee of the offence. She besides made six calls to Suni connected the time betwixt 6.22 p.m. and 7.59 p.m. Suni besides received 7 messages from Sreelakshmi betwixt 9.03 p.m. and 9.56 p.m. connected the time of the offence. The study from the Forensic Science Laboratory showed that videos were captured connected February 17, 2017, betwixt 10.30 p.m. and 10.48 p.m. The past connection from Sreelakshmi was received astatine 9.56 p.m., which was astir fractional an hr earlier the signaling of the visuals, the tribunal recovered out.
The tribunal recovered that Suni made calls and messages to Sreelakshmi adjacent portion travelling with the victim. Yet, the SIT did not mention her arsenic a witness, and the Call Data Record (CDR) and her determination details were not produced, and she was not cited arsenic a witness. As the idiosyncratic who contacted the accused instantly earlier the alleged committee of the offence, she could person shed much airy connected the incident. She would besides person known astir the alleged relation of Suni and Mr. Dileep, the tribunal noted.
The prosecution’s lawsuit was that some Suni and Sreelakshmi maintained a heavy relationship. Hence, she would besides person known astir the alleged relation of Suni and Mr. Dileep, the tribunal pointed out.
The prosecution suppressed the contents successful the telephone of Sreelakshmi, claiming that it would impact her privacy. It did not bring retired the details of the contents of the phone, claiming that it would impact her privacy. The FSL study showed that Sreelakshmi utilized different mobile phone. However, the CDR and determination details of the 2nd fig were besides not produced earlier the court, the judgement noted.
No crushed provided
The justice noted that nary materials were disposable earlier the tribunal to spot whether she was interrogated by the police. No crushed was besides provided for not citing her arsenic a witness.
The lack of her interrogation and nonaccomplishment to bring arsenic grounds the study of FSL successful the introspection of her phone, and the omission to mention her arsenic a witnesser contempt Suni’s connection that the quotation was fixed by a woman, formed superior uncertainty astir the prosecution’s lawsuit that the humiliation of the unfortunate was based connected a quotation from Dileep, the tribunal concluded.
