The Kerala High Court dismissing a petition by Dileep to quash the case against him and six others for alleged conspiracy to endanger police officers involved in the investigation of the actor assault case has vindicated the stance of the Crime Branch (CB), which is investigating the case.
The verdict is likely to motivate the investigators to conduct the probe with renewed vigour. The team headed by Superintendent of Police P. Mohanachandran is now immersed in the verification of huge volumes of digital evidence in the case.
Asked whether the verdict opens the possibility for custodial interrogation of Dileep, CB sources said the voluminous scientific data made it irrelevant at this point. “We have seized a few more phones and an I-mac system during the arrest of private security expert Sai Sankar. The forensic examination results of these seizures are yet to be received. It will be almost another month before we can complete vetting of the entire digital evidence running into thousands of images, chats, and calls. We have to go through them diligently to make full use of them,” the sources said.
