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Eight years after a prominent Malayalam actor was abducted and sexually assaulted in a moving vehicle, the case has come to signify much more than the crime itself. It is now one of the most closely watched trials in Kerala — not only for what the survivor endured, but for what the prosecution claims unfolded behind the scenes of the assault. At the centre of that claim is Malayalam actor Dileep, named as the alleged conspirator who planned the attack, even as the man accused of carrying it out faces trial for the violence itself.

To understand the prosecution’s case against Dileep, it is essential to examine three things it has tried to establish — the motive it attributes to him, the links it says it uncovered between him and th

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