He had earlier approached the High Court for bail in 2022 which was rejected. Nevertheless, later, he approached the Supreme Court docket which additionally rejected it and directed him to maneuver again to the state Excessive Court docket.
The actress-victim who has labored in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam movies was kidnapped and allegedly molested in her automotive for 2 hours by a few of the accused, who had compelled their means into the car on the evening of February 17, 2017 and later escaped in a busy space. All the act was filmed by a few of the accused to blackmail the actress.
There are 10 accused within the case. Dileep, the eighth accused within the case, was additionally arrested and despatched to jail. He was launched after the courtroom granted him bail.