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The Principal Sessions Judge, Thiruvananthapuram, S. Nazeer, connected Wednesday (December 10, 2025) deferred considering the anticipatory bail plea of Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) wide caput Sandeep Varier, who the constabulary person accused of defaming and revealing the individuality of the subsister successful the rape indictment against Palakkad MLA Rahul Mamkootathil, to December 15.
The prosecution told the tribunal that it required much clip to process and forensically analyse the “incriminating” societal media posts attributed by the complainant to Mr. Varier. It was unclear whether the justice had stayed Mr. Varier’s apprehension till the adjacent hearing.
The Thiruvananthapuram City Cyber Police had indicted Mr. Varier arsenic an accused successful the lawsuit past week.
They person accused him of posting the photographs of the subsister participating successful a societal lawsuit connected his societal media handles.
Mr. Varier has since protested the charges. He said helium would combat the lawsuit legally and politically. Mr. Varier had besides accused a DYFI person of disseminating the survivor’s photographs connected societal media.
The FIR besides named Mahila Congress territory wide secretary, Pathanamthitta, Renjitha Pulickan, lawyer Deepa Joseph, and YouTuber Rahul Easwar arsenic co-accused successful the case.
Last week, the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Elsa Catherine George, remanded Mr. Easwar successful judicial custody aft the constabulary accused him of identifying and defaming the survivor, repeatedly outraging her modesty successful the nationalist domain to criminally intimidate her and dissuade her from pressing charges against Mr. Mamkootathil.
The constabulary had besides indicted Mr. Easwar for allegedly procuring, storing, and publishing the photographs and particulars of the unfortunate done societal media, slurring the survivor’s integrity and passing vulgar intersexual remarks against her.
Meanwhile, the prosecution has moved the tribunal for Mr. Easwar’s custody for a 2nd time. The State-side accused Mr. Easwar of being uncooperative and reluctant to disclose the password of the integer devices, including mobile phones and laptops, progressive successful the crime.
The prosecution besides argued that releasing the fishy connected bail would impede the people of the probe and unfastened the model for grounds tampering and further intimidation of the survivor.
The tribunal has posted the prosecution’s custody exertion for further proceeding aboriginal connected Wednesday (December 10, 2025).
