Actor Dileep has contended in the Kerala High Court that the Crime Branch has leveled false and fabricated allegations of destruction of evidence against him and others, as well as their lawyers. Dileep and others were accused of conspiring to kill and threaten police officials probing the 2017 actor assault case. He claimed that the extraction, restoration or deletion of data from a phone by its user was neither clandestine nor illegal and regarding the clearing of 12 WhatsApp messages from his phone, the actor contended that the same is a regular process adopted by many users of the messaging platform.
"The dishonest nature of the investigation, which has become the trademark of the respondents 2,3 and 5 (police officials), is evident from the stories planted by them in the media about the phones of the accused. The allegation that the petitioner (Dileep) and other accused removed and concealed their mobile phones within a few days of disclosure of offences by Balachandra Kumar is an incorrect and misleading statement," the actor said in his reply to a submission by the Crime Branch regarding the alleged conspiracy to kill the officers probing the 2017 actor assault case.
Dileep said that the mobile phones were sent to a mobile forensic expert to extract data from them regarding communications with director Balachandrakumar, to confront him on whether he was made a prosecution witness and the decision to do so was taken much before the fresh case was registered.
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