{"id":2557,"date":"2026-08-06T17:10:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T17:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/?p=2557"},"modified":"2026-08-07T17:33:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T17:33:32","slug":"2017-actress-assault-case-high-court-sentence-suspension-dismissal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/2017-actress-assault-case-high-court-sentence-suspension-dismissal\/","title":{"rendered":"2017\u00a0Actress\u00a0Assault Case (High Court Sentence Suspension Dismissal)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kochi: The Kerala High Court dismissed a plea for suspension of sentence filed by Martin Antony, the second accused in the 2017&nbsp;actress&nbsp;abductions and assault case.&nbsp;A Division Bench of the High Court ruled that strong prima facie evidence proves Antony actively&nbsp;participated&nbsp;in the conspiracy and helped stage a fake collision to trap the victim&#8217;s vehicle.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Action to be Taken<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the 2017 Kerala&nbsp;actress&nbsp;assault case, the second accused, Martin Antony (the driver), filed a petition seeking temporary suspension of his 20-year prison sentence and interim bail while his main appeal&nbsp;remains&nbsp;pending before the High Court. A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court rejected his plea, ruling that prima facie evidence\u2014such as phone records and survivor testimony\u2014demonstrates he actively conspired in the fake collision setup and assisted the assault, while also noting that he previously violated bail conditions by posting defamatory videos about the survivor.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kochi: The Kerala High Court dismissed a plea for suspension of sentence filed by Martin Antony, the second accused in the 2017&nbsp;actress&nbsp;abductions and assault case.&nbsp;A Division Bench of the High Court ruled that strong prima facie evidence proves Antony actively&nbsp;participated&nbsp;in the conspiracy and helped stage a fake collision to trap the victim&#8217;s vehicle.&nbsp; Action to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[290],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kerala-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2559,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions\/2559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}