Former State Police Chief T.P. Senkumar, now a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, has said that actor Dileep was arraigned as an accused in the assault case without any proper evidence against him.
Sharply criticising the manner in which the actor was made an accused, Mr. Senkumar alleged that the investigation team had adopted an unacceptable approach of “first arresting a person and then attempting to create evidence against them.”
“Is this how a case should be investigated?” he asked in a Facebook post, while stressing that the police must approach cases with an open mind, not with “predisposed condition”
Mr. Senkumar further stated that investigation teams should never fabricate evidence under any circumstances. “In all the investigations I handled or supervised, I strictly followed one principle to not create evidence that does not exist,” he wrote.
According to him, during his brief return as State Police Chief in 2017, a tenure that only lasted two months, he had limited interactions with the officers handling the case. Even then, based on the information available, he concluded that there was no relevant or admissible evidence linking Dileep to the crime at that time.
Published – December 08, 2025 07:41 pm IST
