Actor Dileep moves HC challenging further probe in sexual assault case
The Hindu
The move by the State police is to grab another opportunity to fabricate new evidence against him, he alleges.
, on Thursday, February 3, 2022, approached the Kerala High Court challenging further investigation being conducted by the crime branch into the case relating to hatching a conspiracy to do away with the investigation officers in the actor sexual assault case
In his petition, the actor pointed out that in the name of was “a series of vindictive acts by a set of police officers including very senior officers”. They had foisted a case against the petitioner and all other male members of his family and persons closely associated with him, he said.
He said that if the investigation was allowed to be continued it would infringe his right to fair trial. In fact, the investigation was an abuse of the process of the law. The motive behind the filing of a petition for a further investigation by the investigating officer, that too on the date on which the officer was scheduled to be examined as the last witness on the side of the prosecution, was only to “grab another opportunity to fabricate new evidence against him” so as to rectify the lacuna in the probe into the sexual assault case, he alleged.