Conspiracy case: Actor Dileep destroyed evidence, reveals Kerala Crime Branch
India Today
Kerala Crime Branch has revealed that actor Dileep, one of the accused in the actor assault case, destroyed evidence from his mobile phones.
The Crime Branch team probing the conspiracy case against actor Dileep revealed that the actor destroyed evidence from his mobile phone. It has been found that data was removed from the phones between January 20 and 30, when the phones were supposedly in Mumbai.
On January 9, the Crime Branch registered a case on a complaint filed by an investigating officer of the actor assault case, based on a purported audio clip of Dileep, which was telecast by a TV channel, in which the actor was allegedly heard conspiring to harm the official.
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The Kerala High court then issued an order to submit the phones which were then in Mumbai. The phones were bought back to Kerala immediately after the order was issued.
Meanwhile, the crime branch has extended its investigation to a lab in Mumbai. While Dileep had initially argued that the phones were sent to Mumbai to collect evidence, saying all the details in them would help prove his innocence. It was widely suspected that the phones were sent to Mumbai in a bid to destroy proof of crime.
The lab staff gave a statement that they had destroyed evidence from the phone and the data was moved to a hard disk. The police have now seized the hard disk.
The Kerala High Court on Tuesday dismissed actor Dileep's plea opposing further probe in the 2017 actress assault case and permitted the Crime Branch to go ahead with its investigation.
