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Actor Dileep, an accused successful the sensational Kerala histrion rape case, tin locomotion escaped arsenic a proceedings tribunal successful Kochi has acquitted him of each the transgression charges levelled against him.
Honey M. Varghese, the Ernakulam Principal Sessions Judge, connected Monday (December 8, 2025) acquitted Mr. Dileep of the offences charged against him successful the lawsuit aft the proceedings that lasted astir 8 years. Mr. Dileep was the eighth accused.
Court says accused from 1 to 6 convicted.
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The different accused successful the lawsuit were the archetypal accused, N.S. Sunil, alias ‘Pulsur Suni’, the 2nd accused, Martin Antony, 3rd accused B. Manikandan, 4th accused V. P. Vijeesh, 5th accused H. Salim alias Vadiwal Salim, sixth accused Pradeep, seventh accused Charlie Thomas, ninth accused Sanil Kumar, alias Mestri Sanil, and the fifteenth accused, Sarath Nair.
Charles, the seventh accused, was accused of harbouring immoderate of the accused aft the committee of the crime. The complaint against the ninth accused, Sanil, was that helium conspired with Pulsur Sunil successful jailhouse to extort wealth by threatening Dileep.
The 15th accused Sarath, a person of Mr. Dileep, was made an accused successful the 2nd chargesheet. He was tried for the alleged offence of handing implicit and destroying the alleged video footage of the actor.)
Vishnu, Vipinlal and Aneesh, the different 3 accused, had turned approvers successful the case.
The charges levelled against the archetypal six accused and Mr. Dileep included pack rape, transgression conspiracy, outraging the modesty of a woman, wrongful confinement, usage of transgression force, demolition of evidence, taking and distributing obscene images.
The tribunal premises arsenic good arsenic the tribunal hallway were packed with lawyers, mediapersons and friends and relatives of the accused. All the accused were asked to beryllium contiguous successful the tribunal hallway to perceive the verdict.
Actors arsenic witnesses
The lawsuit had attracted wide attraction arsenic salient movie personalities were progressive successful it, including the subsister and the accused, Mr. Dileep. A ample fig of actors were besides examined arsenic witnesses successful the case.
The prosecution had termed actors Bindu Panicker, Edavela Babu and Bhama arsenic hostile witnesses aft they retracted from their earlier statements fixed to the constabulary erstwhile cross-examined successful the court.
The details of the verdict volition beryllium known erstwhile the tribunal uploads the judgement successful the nationalist domain.
The prosecution’s lawsuit was that the accused raped the histrion successful a moving car connected February 17, 2017. The archetypal accused, the prosecution alleged, recorded the alleged enactment successful a mobile telephone pursuing the conspiracy.
Mr. Dileep was accused of conspiring with Pulsar Suni to humiliate the survivor. He suggested filming nude scenes and intersexual acts of the histrion and offered ₹1.5 crore for the job.
Recreating the transgression sequences, the prosecution had alleged that connected the nighttime of the incident, the histrion near her residence successful Thrissur successful an SUV driven by Martin. Later, Martin informed ‘Pulsur’ Sunil astir the car’s determination implicit the phone.
Sunil followed her successful a van. Manikandan and Vijeesh were besides successful the vehicle. At Athani adjacent Aluva, the van was rammed into the pistillate actor’s vehicle, and a fake mishap was created.
While Martin got retired of the car, Manikandan and Vijeesh forced their mode into the backmost spot of the conveyance successful which the histrion was travelling. They forcibly held the actress’s hands and covered her mouth. Pradeep joined the different accused erstwhile the car reached Kalamassery.
Meanwhile, Sunil threatened the histrion and told her that helium was astir to instrumentality a quotation. He stripped her naked, raped her and recorded the scenes successful his mobile phone.
