Govt. challenges acquittal of Dileep, others in actor rape case in HC

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The State authorities has challenged the acquittal of histrion Dileep and 3 others successful the 2017 histrion rape lawsuit earlier the Kerala High Court. It besides sought enhancement of the punishment awarded to the different six convicts successful the case.

The acquittal of Mr. Dileep and others by the Ernakulam Sessions Court was “illegal and contrary to the grounds connected record. The judgement was amerciable and unsustainable, and liable to beryllium acceptable speech and modified.” The awarded condemnation was “highly disproportionate and inadequate, considering the quality of the offences, the mode of execution, and the panic created successful society.” The convicts were awarded lone the minimum punishment for pack rape and due punishment was not awarded for immoderate different offences proved against them, the State contended.

According to the State government, the proceedings tribunal gravely erred successful instrumentality and connected facts and failed to “undertake a broad and holistic valuation of the prosecution grounds successful its entirety” against each the accused who person been charged with the aforesaid offences for being members of the transgression conspiracy. The justice made sweeping and stigmatic observations against the probe and the Investigating Officer. The findings were “wholly uncharitable and contrary to the materials connected record,” it argued.

The State contended that the tribunal earnestly impeached the credibility of the investigation, which was “unwarranted, perverse and without immoderate iota of worldly supporting specified conclusion.”

The proceedings court, which rightly recovered Pulsur Suni and 5 others blameworthy of the 11 offences charged against them, made nary treatment regarding the relation of Mr. Dileep, though the grounds adduced by the prosecution incriminated them equally. The illegality committed by the tribunal led to a “complete nonaccomplishment successful appreciating the prosecution grounds against the maestro conspirator on with different conspirators,” it argued.

The justice undertook “illegal exercises” owed to her “preconceived notions and a deficiency of judicious appreciation of the prosecution evidence.” The archetypal 5 accused and Mr. Dileep who “were participants successful a concatenation of conspiracy hatched to perpetrate assorted offences” connected the subsister and “being members successful the aforesaid conspiracy, are liable to beryllium punished for each acts done by each of the conspirators.”

In the lawsuit of Mr. Dileep, “who is the maestro conspirator,” the Sessions Judge adopted a abstracted attraction and applied a antithetic modular of appreciation of grounds by illegally dissecting the charges against him.” The reliable ineligible grounds against him was “rejected arbitrarily to assistance him an acquittal.”

The discussions of facts related to the transgression conspiracy betwixt Mr. Dileep and Pulsur Suni were dealt with successful an improper mode by rejecting them. The tribunal wrongly appreciated the admitted and proved facts, which proved the superior conspiracy betwixt Mr. Dileep and Pulsur Suni, “which resulted successful the unmerited acquittal” of Mr. Dileep and resulted successful superior miscarriage of justice.”

Published - February 27, 2026 09:19 p.m. IST

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