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The trial in the actor rape case, which was placed on maintain after the prosecution in search of time to transfer the Kerala High courtroom for a change of courtroom, could resume on Tuesday.
On Monday, the Special Court making an attempt the case has scheduled to take up two petitions, one moved by actor Dileep, the eighth accused in the case, in search of motion towards media homes who allegedly printed the proceedings of the in-camera trial and one other one on the social media statements of a number of the members of Women Collective in Cinema (WCC). A number of members of the WCC had made social media statements towards some actors, whom the WCC members claimed to have turned hostile through the trial.
Incidentally, A. Sureshan, the Special Public Prosecutor in the case, had moved the petition apprehending that the victims wouldn’t get “fair trial and justice” from the courtroom.
He had submitted that the courtroom was “highly biased, which is detrimental to the judicial system and to the entire prosecution.” He additionally apprehended that justice shall be denied to the sufferer in the case if the case was tried earlier than the current courtroom.
The prosecution case is that the accused kidnapped the actor and raped her in a transferring automotive. Actor Dileep has been accused of conspiring with the opposite accused in the case.
The Registry of the Kerala High Court has not interfered in the difficulty because it has not formally obtained the petition. On its half, the State authorities had not issued any directive to its prosecution wing in the Kerala High Court to transfer the petition for change of courtroom, authorized sources mentioned.
Weighing the authorized choices in the case, judicial sources indicated that the prosecution could have to transfer the judicial facet of the Kerala High Court if it was eager on a change of courtroom, as raised in its petition.
At the identical time, the trial courtroom may have to be restart the proceedings in the case as scheduled earlier except the prosecution formally knowledgeable the courtroom that it had moved the High Court for altering the courtroom. The trial courtroom can’t afford to idle its time away because the Supreme Court had set a deadline for finishing the trial, sources mentioned.
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