Actor Kavya Madhavan, wife of actor Dileep, on Saturday approached the Kerala High Court seeking anticipatory bail.
In her petition, Kavya stated that some unscrupulous senior police officers combined with a small but powerful section of the film industry were now bent upon destroying the family of Dileep by somehow implicating her in the case.
There was no justification for implication and arrest of the petitioner in this case other than to satisfy a powerful group behind this entire pre-planned drama, she stated. According to Kavya, the investigation agency was harassing her by permitting Pulsar Suni, prime accused in the case, to make disclosures to media while being escorted to courts.
The investigating agency was now scripting a new theory that Suni was the driver of Kavya so that the association of Dileep and Suni could be inferred. Stating that she turned down a suggestion by the investigators to give a statement that she had engaged Pulsar Suni as a driver and given him money, Kavya also submitted that her husband Dileep, who never knew Suni by name or face or even saw him, had already been falsely implicated.
She also alleged that IG Dinendra Kashyap, who was the head of the investigation team, was totally unaware of any move or plan of interrogation of Dileep. Till date, Dileep had not seen Kashyap.
During the interrogation, the investigators even tossed a bait by asking the the witnesses why couldn’t they admit Pulsar Suni was Kavya’s driver when she herself had admitted the same, the petition claimed. When witnesses stuck to the truth they were let off saying they would be called again.
She also said the investigation agency visited ‘Laksyah,’ an online apparel store managed by her brother, on several occasions and collected visiting cards of Laksyah and taken the photograph of the employees. Certain employees were questioned in an intimidating manner, Kavya said.
Also, investigating officer Baiju Paulose and Sudarsan, Superintendent of Police, had visited Laksyah on September 8 and issued threats of arraigning her as an accused unless certain illegal demands raised by them were complied with, she said.
As per the petition, the petitioner had been questioned multiple times by the agency at her matrimonial house at Aluva and at her parents’ home at Vennala.
Besides Kavya, Pulsar Suni also approached the High Court seeking a bail. In his petition, Suni stated that the chargesheet against him was filed on April 17 and hence the detention of the accused was unwarranted.