The Women in Cinema Collective (WCC) has expressed apprehension at the shifting of Additional Director General of Police, Crime Branch, S. Sreejith from the post at a time when the further investigation in the 2017 actor abduction case, in which actor Dileep in an accused, is drawing to a conclusion. In a statement on Sunday, the WCC said that the major reshuffle at the top of the police force could derail the investigation.
“The move to transfer the head of the investigation at a time when the court has given one-and-a-half months more for the investigation is as disappointing as the anti-climax scenes in police films. In a departure from a point from which no justice seemed possible in the case, a series of breakthrough revelations had come out in the case in recent times. These revelations proved our colleague’s complaint that the accused’s advocates have been attempting to derail the case. The accused’s advocates had approached the government with a complaint against the officer and the transfer happened at a time when the investigation seemed to be moving towards them,” said the WCC in the statement.
