Published on : 08 Dec 2025, 1:41 pm 4 min read

A Kerala Court on Monday delivered the much awaited judgment in the 2017 actress assault case, acquitting accused Malayalam actor Dileep, while convicting six others.

The female actor was on her way to a film shoot location in February 2017 when she was abducted and sexually assaulted by a group of men, in a moving vehicle. The men also recorded videos of the assault. The very next day, the driver of the vehicle, Martin Antony, was arrested and within a week, Sunil NS aka Pulsar Suni, a history sheeter, was arrested. Suni was named as first accused. By the end of the month, four others were arrested and arrayed as accused.

In July, 2017, Dileep was arrested for allegedly conspiring and orchestrating the rape to extract revenge as

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