The Kerala Crime Branch police on May 9 reached actor Dileep’s house in Aluva to question his wife and actor Kavya Madhavan. Dileep is the eighth accused and allegedly the main conspirator behind the sexual assault of a female actor in February 2017. Kavya was summoned last month in connection with the ongoing extended probe into the actor assault case of 2017, which is to be completed before May 30. She was asked to appear before the Aluva police club on April 11, but she had asked that the interrogation take place at her home instead, and so a crime branch team reached the actor’s home in Aluva on Monday morning.
Video | Kerala Crime Branch officials at actor Dileep’s house in Aluva to question his wife and actor Kavya Madhavan. Dileep is the eighth accused and allegedly the main conspirator behind the sexual assault of a female actor in February 2017. #Dileep #KavyaMadhavan #Kerala pic.twitter.com/xMYI82ITNb
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The actor had been summoned on the basis of new evidence that emerged in the case, following a few audio clips allegedly containing a conversation between Dileep’s brother-in-law Suraj and Sarath, a family friend. The audio clips were retrieved from the phone belonging to Suraj, as part of another conspiracy case, in which Dileep and Suraj are two of the accused. In one of the audio clips, Suraj allegedly suggests that Kavya had knowledge of the crime and its planning.
These phones were retrieved during a raid on January 13, 2022, by Crime Branch officials at the houses of Dileep and his brother Anoop, several phones belonging to Dileep, Anoop, Suraj and another relative Appu, were seized.
The police had earlier told the Kerala High Court that further investigation is necessary in the case, and that the interrogation of several people, including Kavya Madhavan, can be done “effectively only after the complete verification of the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL reports)” of the digital data from the phones seized from the accused.
Earlier, the probe team had tried to question Kavya “on crucial information received from the digital evidence” but they were told that she was in Chennai and will be available only next week.