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Seeking dismissal of the plea, Senior Advocate Ranjit Kumar, who appeared for Kerala, said Siddique is not cooperating with the rape investigation. (File)
The Supreme Court Tuesday extended by 2 weeks the interim anticipatory bail granted to Malayalam histrion Siddique, who is facing allegations of rape. A seat of Justices Bela M Trivedi and Satish Chandra Sharma besides allowed the petition of Siddique’s counsel Senior Advocate V Giri to respond to the presumption study filed by the Kerala Police.
Seeking dismissal of the plea, Senior Advocate Ranjit Kumar, who appeared for Kerala, said Siddique is not cooperating with the rape investigation. “When helium is coming (for investigation), helium comes with a prepared connection that helium won’t reply thing much and that helium can’t recollect. Also, aft FIR, helium has closed his Facebook account. He does not privation america to get entree to that. We person to attack 3rd parties to access,” Kumar said.
To the bench’s query astir the hold successful lodging the ailment of the incidental dating to 2016, the elder counsel said the unfortunate gathered the courageousness to travel retired successful the unfastened lone aft the study of the Justice Hema Committee, which exposed the casting sofa and different exploitations successful Malayalam movie industry, was released.
In their report, the Kerala Police urged the tribunal not to springiness precedence to the liberty of Siddique implicit “the menace of disrupted investigation”, saying determination was “a stockpile of evidence” against the seasoned histrion and his custodial interrogation was necessary.
On September 29, the SC granted Siddique interim extortion from arrest, aft helium moved the apical tribunal pursuing the Kerala High Court’s rejection of his plea for anticipatory bail connected September 23. The seasoned histrion has doubly appeared earlier the Special Investigation Team (SIT) formed aft respective women actors raised intersexual battle complaints pursuing the merchandise of the Justice Hema Commission report.
In their study filed successful the apical court, the Kerala Police contended that Siddique, booked for allegedly raping an actress, was an “extremely influential person” and could “obstruct the people of justness and scuttle the investigative machinery”. The constabulary expressed apprehension that the “witnesses who person boldly travel guardant aft the Justice Hema Commission study volition measurement back” if his interim extortion was indefinitely prolonged.
As per the prosecution case, with the volition to rape the victim, Siddique tactfully lured her by promising a relation successful a movie and thereafter raped her astatine a Thiruvananthapuram edifice connected January 28, 2016.
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