The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the abduction and sexual assault on a female actor in Kochi on Tuesday will produce actor Dileep, an accused in the case, before the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court through videoconferencing.
The actor is being produced before the magistrate as his current remand period is slated to end on August 8. This will be the second time that the actor is being produced before the magistrate here through videoconferencing after his first appearance on July 25. Considering reports of security threats involved in physically producing the actor, the court has already permitted the SIT to produce the actor, currently lodged in the Aluva sub-jail, through videoconferencing.
Meanwhile, sub-jail officials have denied reports of the actor not keeping well inside the prison and receiving undue favours from the prison officials. The actor had been suffering from an ear-balancing problem and, on his request some 10 days ago, a doctor had examined him and prescribed medicine, officials said.
Regarding allegations of undue favours to the actor, they maintained that the person who had raised those allegations had just served a day inside the prison in connection with an eight-year-old theft case and had never met the actor even once.
“There was absolutely no chance of him meeting Dileep, lodged in another cell in the same row. Besides, there are about 75 CCTVs monitoring the activities inside the jail, which could have caught any such misdeeds,” they pointed out.
A Perumbavoor native, who was recently released from the prison here, had alleged that Dileep used to spend most part of his day inside the jail superintendent’s room and was served with the special food prepared for officials.