Adoor GopalakrishnanThiruvananthapuram: Veteran Malayalam filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan has questioned the alleged media trial of actor Dileep who has been arrested in connection with the actress attack case.
"The Dileep whom I know is neither a culprit nor an underworld don. The media should wait for the court to pronounce its verdict," he said.
Adoor added that media was pronouncing the sentence even before the trial has begun.
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Adoor and Dileep joined hands for the award-winning director's latest film 'Pinneyum'.
Pinneyum, having Dileep and Kavya Madhavan in the lead roles, portrayed an ordinary person's transformation into a greedy criminal.
Dileep was arrested on Monday for allegedly conspiring the attack on the Malayalam actress. The court on Friday extended his police custody till Saturday morning.
The actress was waylaid and allegedly molested in a moving car in Kochi on February 17.
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