KOCHI: Number 18 Hotel owner Roy Vayalatt and friend Saiju Thankachan has been granted conditional bail by Ernakulam Pocso Court.

The third accused in the case Anjali Reema Dev has received bail earlier. Police have registered a case against Roy Vayalatt for allegedly physically abusing a minor girl during a DJ party. A Kozhikode resident had lodged a complaint that her 17-year-old daughter was forcibly raped.

The incident happened last October. The visuals of the assault were recorded on the mobile phone by other accused. He had threatened to circulate the visuals on social media if they lodges a complaint to the police. Roy Vayalatt and Saiju Thankachan are also accused in the death of former Miss Kerala and her friends in a car accident.