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2017 actor assault case: Questions not answered, serious doubts raised
The Morning Standard
|January 12, 2026
MORE than two years since the most crucial digital evidence in the 2017 actor abduction and sexual assault case was found to have been illegally accessed while in court custody, no action has been initiated against those responsible.
Instead, the inquiry into the breach has thrown up a series of unanswered questions.Prosecution said, a key unresolved issue is why the then magistrate of the Angamaly judicial first class magistrate court took the memory card containing the sexual-abuse visuals to her residence and why the inquiry report remains silent on whether other persons were present when the card was accessed. Serious doubts have also been raised regarding access by staff of the then Ernakulam district and sessions judge, allegedly on the judge's instruction, without the report explaining the specific purpose for such an examination.
This story is from the January 12, 2026 edition of The Morning Standard.
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