Court acquits Shine Chacko, 7 others in suspected drug party at Kochi flat in 2015
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Kochi: In a case involving a suspected drug party at an apartment in Kochi in January 2015, the Ernakulam Additional Sessions Court found Malayalam film actor Shine Tom Chacko and seven other people not guilty based on blood test results that ruled out cocaine abuse and the prosecution's inability to prove possession of cocaine traces found at the scene.
On January 31, 2015, police raided an apartment in Jawahar Nagar, Kochi, where Reshma, Blessy, Tincy Babu, and Sneha Babu were arrested. The other acc
The other accused, African national Okowe Chigozie Collins, Prithviraj, and Jasbir Singh, were accused of supplying Reshma and Blessy with 10 grammes of cocaine each.
Shine and the four women spent two months in jail before being granted bail by the Kerala High Court in March 2015. The trial began in October 2018 in the Ernakulam Additional Sessions Court, with approximately 25 witnesses examined, TNIE reported.
The court found in favour of the accused after blood testing revealed that none of them had consumed cocaine.
Furthermore, the prosecution could not prove that the cocaine traces discovered in the flat belonged to the accused. All eight defendants, including Shine Tom Chacko, were present in court when the verdict was pronounced.