The verdict in the 2017 Kerala actor assault case was announced exactly at 11.05 am on December 8. Twenty minutes later, DySP Baiju Paulose, the investigating officer, quietly exited the courtroom and slid away from the media. 

The principal district and sessions court in Ernakulam acquitted Dileep and convicted six others in the case. The judge said that the prosecution had failed to prove the conspiracy in which actor Dileep had been accused of masterminding the crime. 

The actor left the courtroom, thronged by his........

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