KOCHI: The investigation team has found that four of the call details deleted by actor Dileep with the help of cyber expert Sai Shankar were from abroad. Six of the 12 calls are under suspicion by the crime branch.

The caller has been identified. Statements will be taken from them the next day. A phone call goes to Dileep's sister-in-law Suraj. The crime branch assumes that the data removed would be important information in the case. Sai took a room in a luxurious hotel in Kochi to delete the data. There is no need to spend a fortune booking a hotel room to remove trivial information. The information was removed by attaching two of Dileep's iPhones to Sai Shankar's laptop. He logged in to the iMac laptop with his wife's ID.

The police are looking into recent financial transactions. Sai Shankar, who went missing after sending an e-mail asking for a 10-day time to appear by claiming he had Covid symptoms, could not be traced. Investigations have been launched into the cases, including the one he chased the investigating officer with a gun and threatened a Kozhikode resident by pointing a gun.

Sarath G Nair, a close friend of Dileep and owner of Surya Hotel and Travels in Aluva, who was handed over controversial visuals to actor Dileep, will be summoned for questioning. He was given two notices by the Crime Branch team investigating the conspiracy but did not appear.