KOCHI: M S Sunil aka Pulsar Suni was a trusted driver at Malayalam film sets until February 2017, when a gang led by him abducted an actor and raped her in a moving vehicle at Athani near Nedumbassery.
A native of Perumbavoor, 34-year-old Suni was nicknamed Pulsar Suni because of his love for Bajaj Pulsar motorcycles.
Suni had been working at film shooting sets as a driver since 2010. He was the personal driver of actor turned MLA Mukesh for a few years before being sacked for unknown reasons.
However, Suni continued to work as a driver at film sets which made him familiar to most of the actors in Mollywood.
As per the prosecution case, Suni was acquainted with actor Dileep who is the eighth accused in the actor abduction case, at the film shooting set of the movie 'Sound Thoma' in 2013.
According to the police finding, Dileep maintained a grudge towards the victim actor since 2013 for allegedly tipping off his former wife about his relationship with another actor.
There was a confrontation between Dileep and the victim during the rehearsal of a stage show conducted by AMMA held at a hotel in Kochi MG Road in 2013. At that time, Suni was working as the driver of actor Mukesh.
Following this, Dileep allegedly tasked Suni to attack the victim, as per the police case file.
Both also met at the film shooting set of the movie 'Georgettan's Pooram' and he was promised money on completion of the task.
Pulsar asked six of his close friends to join him in abducting the actor who was returning from a film shooting location in Thrissur to Kochi in February 17, 2017. After abduction, she was raped in a moving vehicle, according to the police.
After this, Suni reached the boutique of Dileep's current wife Kavya, but he could not meet her. He went hiding and was arrested a month later from the court premises where he reached to surrender.
However, Dileep landed in trouble after police came to know that Suni had written a letter to him from the jail.
Initially, Suni claimed that he was made to write the letter forcibly by jail authorities. After the arrest of Dileep, Suni started claiming that he was hired by Dileep to attack the victim.
Both Dileep and Suni come face to face at the court during the trial proceedings now.