Kerala actor molestation: Prime accused sneaks into judge's chamber, nabbed

Kochi: The prime accused in the molestation case of a popular Malayalam actor surrendered himself before the chief judicial magistrate in Kochi on Thursday.

Pulsar Suni, was taken into police custody when he reached the court to surrender himself.

Reports revealed that Suni, accompanied by another accused, reached the judge’s chambers unnoticed despite heavy police presence in the premises, but the judge was out for lunch. As the duo tried to get out, the policemen nabbed them, and were pulled out of the chambers by policemen in plain clothes. T

"We have taken them into custody. We had deployed our men in the city. They managed to get them," Ernakulam Range I G P Vijayan said.

Visuals aired by news channels showed the duo being forcefully taken into custody by police.

Advocates of the accused made a vain bid to prevent police from entering the building and taking them into custody. They were later taken to Aluva police club for questioning.

The lawyers charged the police with forcefully taking their clients into custody from the court room itself.

Police allegedly entered the courtroom wearing helmets. The developments come a day after Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan asserted that every effort was being made to trace the key accused in the abduction and assault of the actress.

The incident took place last Friday night when the actress was travelling to Kochi from her house in Thrissur. Pulsar Suni is accused of masterminding the attack along with his associates.

Suni's gang followed her in a tempo traveller and hit her vehicle from behind when it reached Athani near Nedumbassery.

The gang members forcefully entered her car and assaulted her inside the moving vehicle over the next three hours. They clicked her semi-nude pictures and recorded videos as the car was driven around Kochi. Finally, the attackers left her in the car near Padamughal and escaped in the tempo that was trailing behind.

The Kerala police, that had been investigating the assault and molestation of the actress, had taken a person into custody on Wednesday from a flat that is believed to belong to a young actor-director from the industry.

The detainee is believed to have been one of the gang members, who attacked the actress in a  moving car in Kochi. If the detainee is affirmed to be linked to the case, the Police will arrest the owner of the flat.

The development has put more suspicion on the Malayalam film industries involvement in the crime, since the Police have also found out that a person from the actress’ film unit had leaked her itinerary to the goons.

A prominent Mollywood actor had also been interrogated by the police in association with the case. Four people from the actress’ latest film unit are reportedly under the Police’s scanner.