KOCHI: The survivor in the 2017 actor abduction and sexual assault case expressed shock over the report of a judicial probe into the alleged unauthorised access of a memory card containing the visuals of the assault while it was in the custody of court.
“It’s tragically shocking,” the survivor wrote on her Instagram handle. She expressed concern that her right to privacy has been violated as the hash value of the memory card got changed multiple times.
Recently, the High Court had ordered the District Principal Sessions Court, which is conducting trial of the case, to provide a copy of the report to the survivor.
“While privacy is an individual’s fundamental right, what has been denied through the multiple changes to the hash value of the visuals-containing memory card in the (custody of the) court is the right granted to me as an individual by the Constitution of this country. And, it’s very scary to know that my privacy is not currently safe in this court,” she noted.
She said when the survivor faces such bad experiences from the part of the court, which is bound to fortify justice, it’s the victims who are shattered.
I will continue fight, says survivor
The survivor wrote that she will continue her fight with the belief that the era of honest judges has not ended. “I will continue the fight believing that the sanctity of judiciary, which is the last resort for each Indian citizen, will not collapse. Jai Hind,” she wrote.
The survivor’s social media post comes days after she approached the High Court with the details of the inquiry report along with a petition to quash the report and seeking to order a court-monitored probe by a special probe team of the police.
Citing the report, the survivor in her plea in HC had stated that the judicial probe conducted by the Ernakulam District Sessions Court revealed that Leena Rasheed, former magistrate of Angamaly Judicial First Class Magistrate Court; Mahesh Mohan, a senior clerk attached to the then principal and sessions judge – now a judge in the Kerala HC – and Thajudeen, then sheristadar (similar to a registrar) of the trial court, Ernakulam, accessed the memory card.