Kerala HC transfers Dileep’s mobile to magisterial court

Kochi: The Kerala High Court on Tuesday transferred to a magisterial court the mobile phones produced before it by actor Dileep and others who are accused of threatening officials probing the sexual assault of an actress in 2017.

Justice Gopinath directed the Registrar General of the high court to send the six mobiles to the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court-I, Aluva, in a sealed cover.

The direction was issued after lawyers for Dileep and others objected to the mobiles being handed over to the police for forensic examination.

“We have serious apprehensions with regard to handing over the mobile phones to them,” the actor’s lawyers said.

The counsel for the police, who urged the high court to hand over the phones to them, agreed that the devices can be sent to the magisterial court.

They, however, insisted that the actor and the others be asked to provide the unlock codes or patterns of the phones, to which Dileep’s lawyers said that the same would be provided to magisterial court.