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In a deeply troubling turn of events, a Kerala sessions court has convicted prime accused Pulsar Suni but acquitted Malayalam actor Dileep in the horrific 2017 sexual assault case of a woman actor.

The Additional Special Sessions Court (SPE/CBI – III), Ernakulam, convicted Sunil Kumar, alias Pulsar Suni, on December 8.

Special Judge Honey M Varghese found Suni guilty of rape. However, Dileep, the eighth accused, who was charged with criminal conspiracy and the orchestration of what we know to be the first case of ‘quotation rape’ (hiring someone to rape a woman), has been acquitted.

During the course of the trial, Dileep was accused of tampering with evidence,

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