KOCHI: Cyber expert Sai Shankar revealed that he had removed evidence related to the actress assault case from Dileep’s phone. Sai Shankar revealed crucial information about the case during an interview given to the media. According to Sai Shankar, he was asked to remove information related to the actress assault case from the phone rather than information on the conspiracy case. He also said that the information was removed after a two-day long effort.
Sai Shankar said the evidence he destroyed included court documents. There was court sealed and non-sealed documents. “When they called me first, they did not say anything about destroying evidence. I came to know about this when I reached the lawyer’s office. I destroyed evidence from two phones. Dileep’s lawyer Adv Philip T Varghese told me that this should never come out. Dileep was also present when the evidence was removed,” Sai Shankar said.
According to Sai Shankar, he was erasing information from the phones while staying at Hotel Hyatt on January 29 and 30. “The work lasted till 3 in the morning. All the phones had the same documents. It was Dileep who told me what to delete from the phones. Dileep was there along with the lawyers for around five hours in this regard,” Sai Shankar added.
“The original documents were hidden and junk data was loaded there. To make it appear that nothing had been erased from the phone, we placed some unimportant documents in the place of the erased documents. All 12 chats now recovered are dummy. The real chats won’t be available. But I can recover them. The phone contained crucial evidence in the actress assault case. That was their main concern. The data was erased by six o’clock on Sunday. I gave the phone back to them on that same day at around 11.30,” he said.
Sai Shankar said that he was not paid much for destroying the evidence and that he would co-operate with the investigation.