But by then, the damage was done, and her identity became common knowledge. When it came to light that she had been sexually assaulted, most media houses backtracked and began referring to her as “a popular Malayalam actor”. Back then, media organisations, in their haste to break the ‘juicy’ bits, didn’t wait for legitimate details of the sexual assault, and ran reports naming the actor, and even her photograph. Rumours linking Dileep to the assault began on the same evening of February 17. As weeks went by, it became clearer that this wasn’t just the product of an over-enthusiastic rumour mill, but a dark conspiracy. While the definitive nature of arrest was unexpected, Dileep’s name featured immediately on the grapevine as soon as the assault made news. It feels like the stuff of movies, not real-life, and indeed, no film industry in India has seen a case quite like this. The police believe that Dileep paid men to abduct and assault the actor, and take videos of the assault as proof, in order to exact revenge upon her and ‘teach her a lesson’. On Monday, Malayalam superstar Dileep was arrested on conspiracy charges in the case. But nothing has been more shocking than the arrest that came on July 10. Kerala has spent the last few months being shaken up by new developments in the case of the popular Malayalam actor who was abducted and sexually assaulted in a car by four men in Kochi on February 17, 2017.
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