Kerala Bar Council lashes out at Crime Branch for leaked audio recordings in assault case
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Thiruvananthapuram: The Bar Council of Kerala on Sunday lashed out at the Crime Branch for leaking privileged communication between a lawyer and his client in the 2017 sexual assault case to the media, the News Minute reported.
Sethunath, an advocate with the High Court of Kerala had filed a complaint regarding this based on which the Bar Council met.
The complaint sought appropriate legal action against the police officers who allegedly leaked a telephone conversation between Senior Advocate B. Raman Pillai and actor Dileep who is accused in the assault case.
As per reports, the leaked conversations contained detailed briefings allegedly of one of the lawyers, coaching Anoop, Dileep's brother, on how to answer possible questions that would be asked of him during the trial.
It created a furore since there were snippets in the conversation about Manju Warrier, Dileep's former wife and actor and a crucial witness of the prosecution. The person who is coaching can be heard asking the other person to lie that Manju Warrier would come home drunk when she was with Dileep.
The Crime Branch's case is that Dileep allegedly masterminded the attack against the survivor actor Bhavana because she had divulged details of an affair between him and Kavya Madhavan to Manju.
The Bar Council had also received another complaint from Bhavana last month, seeking action against Raman Pillai, Dileep's advocate, for trying to sabotage the case by influencing witnesses. She had alleged that the advocates employed illegal actions, not suited for the profession. However, the advocate has given no explanation to the Council yet.
New developments arose in the case towards the end of last year when director Balachandrakumar, who is believed to have been once close to Dileep, made a few revelations concerning the accused actor. He also produced audio recordings in support of his statements, which prompted the police to ask the court for further investigation into the assault case.