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Kerala’s Leader of the Opposition V. D. Satheesan has said the tribunal verdict uncovering the accused straight progressive successful the histrion rape and abduction case blameworthy is “a alleviation and whitethorn service arsenic a deterrent against specified incidents successful the future.”
Talking to mediapersons successful the aftermath of the Principal Sessions Court verdict connected Monday which acquitted histrion Dileep, the eighth accused, Mr. Satheesan said the subsister had to look an ordeal that nary pistillate should beryllium enactment through. “That the blameworthy person been convicted is satisfactory,” helium said.
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The prosecution volition people spell connected entreaty against the verdict. The tribunal reaches conclusions based connected evidence. If the verdict does not lucifer the evidence, past the prosecution tin opt for an appeal, Mr. Satheesan said, adding that whether the prosecution has failed successful presenting its lawsuit tin beryllium determined lone aft receiving the elaborate verdict. It is not due to marque a premature remark connected that, helium said.
“This verdict was made imaginable acknowledgment to the beardown stance adopted by the erstwhile Thrikkakara MLA, the precocious P. T. Thomas. If not for him, determination would not person been a lawsuit successful the archetypal place. PT was determined to guarantee that those blameworthy of attacking the histrion did not spell scot-free,” helium said.
“Women’s information has to beryllium further strengthened successful Kerala. Atrocities against women person accrued with the worsening cause menace. Scientific systems should beryllium introduced to heighten women’s safety. Women who rise complaints indispensable beryllium ensured justice. The existing mechanics is inadequate, and changes successful keeping with the times should beryllium introduced,” Mr. Satheesan said.
