The Kerala High Court has sought a response from the state government on a plea by the survivor in the 2017 actor assault case, seeking an SIT probe into the alleged illegal access of a memory card containing visuals of the crime.
Justice C S Dias admitted the petition and issued a notice to the state government, giving it time to file its counter-affidavit within one month.
The High Court directed the District and Sessions Court in Ernakulam to send the memory card and pendrive containing the visuals and the reports of the enquiry earlier carried out in a sealed cover to the Registrar General of the Kerala High Court.
The survivor has sought a fresh probe by a Special Investigation Team, supervised by the High Court, into the alleged leak of the contents of the memory card and pendrive.
The case relates to the abduction and sexual assault of an actor in a moving vehicle while she was travelling from Thrissur to Kochi on February 17, 2017.
