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A azygous justice of Kerala High Court connected Wednesday (June 10, 2026) recused himself from considering the petition filed by the subsister successful the Kerala histrion rape case, seeking to quash the Ernakulam District and Sessions Judge’s enquiry study into the alleged unauthorised entree to the representation card, a cardinal portion of grounds which contained the videos of the crime.
Justice Kauser Edappagath sought the recusal erstwhile the substance was considered connected the day.
Earlier, Justice Jobin Sebastian had recused himself, reasoning that helium had served arsenic the Registrar of the District Judiciary erstwhile the subsister submitted an administrative ailment regarding the amerciable entree to the representation paper portion successful judicial custody during proceedings tribunal proceedings.
Justice Edappagath has not stated immoderate reasons for his recusal.
The survivor’s plea seeks a probe by a peculiar probe squad (SIT) into the alleged leak, to impact a cyber/digital forensics adept successful the SIT, an autarkic technological investigation regarding the anticipation of transportation and transmission of the contents from the representation card, and orders for a just and broad probe into the disputed enquiry report.
The study had revealed that the representation paper was accessed thrice portion successful judicial custody, without immoderate authorisation.
