Actress assault case: Kerala crime branch to interrogate Dileep’s wife Kavya Madhavan

The Crime Branch of Kerala Police on Friday served notice to Malayalam actress Kavya Madhavan to appear for interrogation on Monday in the 2017 actress assault case. Kavya is the wife of Malayalam actor Dileep who is the eighth accused in this case. Recently, Crime Branch interrogated Dileep for two consecutive days. He was accused of conspiring with others to murder police officials who had been investigating the actor assault case. Earlier, the Kerala High Court directed the probe team to conclude the investigation into the case by April 15. The case pertains that an actress, who worked in Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu films, was allegedly abducted and molested inside her car by a group of men who had forced their way into the vehicle on the night of February 17, 2017.

 

The court proceedings were progressing smoothly for Dileep till Balachandra Kumar made an appearance and spilled the beans saying that the actor soon after being released on bail saw the visuals of the actress who was kidnapped being physically attacked by her tormentors. Until this time it was only the trial court had seen it. Kumar made more disclosures before the police and also a magistrate. 

 

Based on these disclosures, the police probe team registered a fresh case and sensing that he might be arrested, Dileep sought anticipatory bail. Dileep was arrested in 2017 and lodged in prison in a case related to sexually assaulting a frontline heroine of South Indian movies and filming the scenes. After two months in jail, he was released on bail.