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A territory tribunal successful Thiruvananthapuram connected Wednesday (December 3, 2025) remanded YouTuber Rahul Easwar to constabulary custody till Thursday (December 4, 2025).
Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM) Elsa Catherine George had earlier remanded Mr. Easwar successful judicial custody after the Thiruvananthapuram City Cyber Police arrested the right-wing activistic and tv commentator connected the complaint of defaming and revealing the individuality of the pistillate who had accused Palakkad MLA Rahul Mamkootathil of serial rape and coerced termination of pregnancy.
Mr. Easwar had declared a hunger onslaught successful prison. He attempted to make governmental theatre by reiterating that helium would proceed to enactment Mr. Mamkootathil. The tribunal ordered the Central Prison authorities to guarantee Mr. Easwar received aesculapian attention.
Subsequently, situation officials transferred Mr. Easwar to Government Fort Hospital. The territory tribunal posted Mr. Easwar’s bail plea for further proceeding connected Saturday.
Sandeep Varier seeks bail
Another accused successful the case, Sandeep Varier, a KPCC wide secretary, has moved the tribunal for anticipatory bail.
The FIR registered astatine the metropolis cyber transgression constabulary presumption besides names 2 Mahila Congress leaders, among 20 others, including Mr. Mamkootathil’s vocal societal media supporters.
Prosecution’s case
The prosecution’s lawsuit was that Mr. Easwar defamed the subsister and outraged her modesty successful nationalist to intimidate her criminally, allegedly to dissuade her from pressing charges against Mr. Mamkootathil.
The State-side besides accused Mr. Easwar of procuring, storing and publishing the photographs and particulars of the unfortunate done Facebook and different societal media platforms connected assorted dates.
Notably, the prosecution indicted Mr. Easwar for repeatedly slurring the survivor’s integrity and making vulgar and intersexual remarks against her.
The State-side besides submitted YouTube videos containing the sexually coloured remarks allegedly broadcast by Mr. Easwar. It stressed the request to retrieve different physics devices utilized for the offence.
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.
Earlier, the constabulary alleged that Mr. Easwar failed to respond to a announcement to look for questioning, a assertion his household has since denied.
The prosecution besides submitted that the ACJM had noted that the investigators had identified the prima facie offence related to making sexually coloured remarks against the woman, an infraction punishable by 1 twelvemonth of imprisonment and a fine.
Meanwhile, the cyber constabulary are poised to instrumentality Mr. Easwar to his bureau and residence to hunt for much physics gadgets progressive successful the offence.
