In a deeply troubling turn of events, a Kerala sessions court has convicted prime accused Pulsar Suni but acquitted Malayalam actor Dileep in the horrific 2017 sexual assault case of a woman actor. 

The Additional Special Sessions Court (SPE/CBI – III), Ernakulam, convicted Sunil Kumar, alias Pulsar Suni, on December 8. 

Special Judge Honey M Varghese found Suni guilty of rape. However, Dileep, the eighth accused, who was charged with criminal conspiracy and the orchestration of what we know to be the first case of ‘quotation rape’ (hiring someone to rape a woman), has been acquitted.

During the course of the trial, Dileep was accused of tampering with evidence, shaming the survivor, influencing witnesses, and possessing visuals of the sexual assault.

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The case, among the most closely followed in Kerala’s recent history, concerns the abduction and sexual assault of a prominent woman actor in a moving car in Kochi on February 17, 2017. 

Suni was arrested within days of the assault. Over the next few months, the investigation examined whether the assault was........

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