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The Ernakulam Sessions Court successful Kerala volition pronounce its judgment successful the sensational histrion rape case, successful which histrion Dileep is an accused, connected December 8, 2025.
Mr. Dileep was tried for allegedly hatching a conspiracy with the archetypal accused, Sunilkumar, aka ‘Pulsur’ Suni, who allegedly raped the pistillate histrion and videographed the transgression act. The histrion was imprisoned for astir 90 days successful the case.
The prosecution lawsuit is that the accused raped the histrion successful a moving car connected February 17, 2017. The archetypal accused, alleged the prosecution, recorded the alleged enactment successful a mobile telephone pursuing the conspiracy.
The Ernakulam Principal Sessions Judge, Honey M. Varghese, volition pronounce the judgement connected the day, frankincense marking the extremity of 1 of the prolonged and sensational transgression trials successful Kerala.
The proceedings successful the lawsuit began successful 2018. The proceedings were disrupted respective times during the past years. The prosecution had to beryllium stopped connected a fewer occasions arsenic the pistillate histrion approached the higher courts doubly seeking the removal of the judicial serviceman considering the case.
While the COVID-induced lockdown took distant astir 2 years, the prosecution took 1 twelvemonth to implicit the further probe successful the lawsuit pursuing the alleged revelations of filmmaker Balachandrakumar that helium had witnessed Mr. Dileep and others watching the visuals of the alleged rape astatine his Aluva residence, frankincense adding to the delay.
The lawsuit would spell into the annals of judicial past arsenic 1 of the fewer transgression cases successful which the largest fig of spin-off petitions were moved successful the precocious courts, including the Supreme Court.
The accused arsenic good arsenic the prosecution had filed respective appeals connected the assorted orders passed by the proceedings tribunal and the High Court, which besides had a cumulative effect connected the hold successful completing the trial.
The lawsuit had besides near overmuch interaction connected the Malayalam cinema manufacture and led to the enactment of Women Collective successful Cinema, a forum that canvassed for the extortion of the rights of women successful cinema and the constitution of the Hema Committee study to look into the issues faced by women successful Malayalam cinema.
The tribunal had considered astir 1,700 documents and 261 witnesses, including the salient cinema actors. The proceedings successful the lawsuit was held in-camera.
The different accused successful the lawsuit are Martin Antony, B. Manikandan, V.P. Vijeesh, Salim, Pradeep, Charley Thomas, and Sanil.
