KOCHI: The assaulted actress has filed an application in the high court to join the party against actor Dileep’s plea seeking cancellation of further investigation into the conspiracy case. Dileep had alleged that the government had started further investigation against him without the approval of the trial court. However, the actress has requested that a final decision should be taken only after hearing her [victim] opinion. The actress is of the view that further investigation needs to be conducted based on the new revelations. The high court will consider the petition today. Hints suggest that the prosecution’s arguments will also be presented.

In the meantime, Suraj, the third accused in the conspiracy case, appeared before the investigating officers. Suraj was questioned for three days as per the high court’s directive. The second accused, Anoop will be questioned on Wednesday. A decision has been made to question Dileep as well.

As per information, the details in some of the phones exchanged by the three accused in the murder conspiracy case, including actor Dileep, could not be traced. The six phones are planned to be send to the Central Forensic Lab, for detailed examination, with the court’s permission. The Regional Forensic Laboratory in Bengaluru and the Central Forensic Laboratory in Pune are being considered. The results from central labs will take time and this worries the crime branch.

The investigation team received the lab results on Saturday evening, after a wait of 15 days. The phones of Dileep, brother Anoop, brother-in-law T N Suraj were brought to the High Tech cell in Thiruvananthapuram on February 4, following the high court’s directive.

The ambiguity surrounding the iPhone used by Dileep, from 2017 till August 2021, still continues. The investigation team had submitted in the court, the Call Detail Record (CDR) of 2,075 calls that were received from the phone, which Dileep said was not there. Crime branch is of the view that this phone contains all the evidence of the murder conspiracy, possession of the footage of attacking the actress as well as Pulsar Suni’s quotation.