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The Hindu
The Hindu
National
K.C. Gopakumar

Kerala HC extends order restraining the arrest of Dileep and others

The Kerala High Court on Tuesday adjourned to Friday the hearing on the anticipatory bail petitions filed by actor Dileep and five other persons in a case registered for threatening the investigation officer in the actor sexual assault case.

While adjourning the hearing, the court made it clear that the earlier undertaking by the Prosecution that the petitioners would not be arrested would continue till Friday.

According to Dileep and others, the registration of the FIR was "nothing but a vindictive and retaliatory act of investigation officer Baiju Paulose against whom Dileep had initiated criminal contempt of court proceedings for causing obstruction to the administration of justice before the Additional Special Sessions Court trying the assault case.

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