Malayalam superstar Dileep arrested
aluva (kerala) — Malayalam superstar Dileep was on Monday evening arrested by a Kerala police team probing the abduction of a popular actress in February this year.
Dileep was questioned last month for 13 hours and let off. On Monday, he was questioned at an undisclosed location, and after five hours, the probe team arrested him. Around 7.20pm, Dileep was brought to the Aluva Police Club from the place where he was questioned.
Dileep is understood to be behind the abduction of the young actress on February 17.
On that day, the hugely popular actress was travelling from Thrissur to Kochi by road when she was abducted and molested in a moving car. After almost two hours, she was dumped near the house of director-turned-actor Lal. The police arrested Pulsar Suni and his aides, who effected the kidnap, a week after the incident. —
aluva (Kerala) — Malayalam superstar Dileep was on Monday evening arrested in connection with the abduction and molestation of a popular actress in a car in February this year.
The office of Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan confirmed the news of the arrest to the media.
Dileep was questioned last month for 13 hours in the case and was let off.
On Monday, he was questioned at an undisclosed location near here, and after five hours the police probe team recorded the arrest of the actor. Around 7.20pm, Dileep was brought to the Aluva Police club from the place where he was questioned.
Dileep is understood to be behind the abduction of the young actress on February 17.
On that day, the hugely popular actress was travelling from Thrissur to Kochi by road when she was abducted. After almost two hours she was dumped near the house of director-turned-actor Lal, who upon hearing her harrowing experience, informed police.
She was reported to have been molested enroute. The police probe team arrested Pulsar Suni and his aides, who effected the kidnap, a week after the incident.
The conspiracy angle surfaced ever since Dileep and his close aide, actor-turned-director Nadir Shah, was questioned for 13 hours last month.
Trouble began for Dileep last month after his name surfaced in a jail inmate’s letter who had shared the cell with Suni.
Following this, Dileep was called for questioning. During the marathon questioning, he claimed he did not know Suni. But by then the police had established the fact that Suni was at the shooting location of Dileep’s film in November at Thrissur. A photo of Suni at the film locales was released by TV channels.
Pressure mounted on the police to get to the bottom of the conspiracy. The Congress party sought a CBI probe into the case, while the BJP expressed its displeasure over the police probe.
The Association of the Malayalam Movies Artistes (AMMA) came under heavy attack from several quarters over its stand on the issue. The Congress party on Monday demanded that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan give up the Home portfolio, alleging that he tried to derail the investigation process in the actress abduction case by stating that there was no conspiracy.
The Congress reaction came after superstar Dileep was arrested.
State Congress president M.M. Hassan said the Left government had promised security for women, but in the actress abduction case, after the arrest of prime accused Pulsar Suni, Vijayan had immediately dismissed any conspiracy angle to the abduction. —
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