Kochi (Kerala) [India], March 15 (ANI): The crime branch of Kerala police on Tuesday submitted a chargesheet before the Ernakulam First Class Judicial Magistrate Court in the case of alleged accident killing three people including former Miss Kerala Ansi Kabeer and former Miss Kerala Runner-up Anjana Shajan.

Kochi Feb 24 PTI The Kerala High Court on Thursday said that there appears to be a ring of truth in the allegations by a minor victim in her statement before a magistrate in a POCSO case against the owner of city-based Hotel 18 and two others including a woman Justice Gopinath P said that after perusing the statement given by the minor under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code before a magistrate there appears to be a ring of truth in that The section 164 statement shows how the entire thing was planned There is sufficient material in it to indicate that accused no 3 Anjali Vadakkepurakkal had practically enticed the girl by saying she minor will be made a model She Anjali made her minor do all sorts of things made her wear all kinds of dresses took her photographs I cannot say anything more than that regarding the 164 statement the judge said The court further said that according to the prosecution CCTV images show that the minor and her mother left the hotel in a disturbed state on the date of incident The court was hearing the anticipatory bail pleas moved by the three accused -- Hotel 18 owner Roy J Vayalat and his friends Anjali Vadakkepurakkal and Syju M Thankachan -- who have alleged that the complaint of molestation and sexual assault against them by the minors mother was a deliberate attempt at blackmail The petitioners lawyers urged the court to see the CCTV visuals of that day and said that it would show the correct state of affairs Subsequently the court listed the matter for further hearing on March 2 The court on Tuesday had said that if it found the 164 statement believable it would dismiss the accused anticipatory bail pleas According to the complainants mother who was an employee of Vadakkepurakkal the latter had invited her and her daughter to Hotel 18 under the guise of a meeting and there Vayalat had allegedly molested the minor and also video recorded the same After the mother and daughter left the hotel Vadakkepurakkal allegedly circulated the video and other photographs of the minor on social media and to others the complaint has claimed According to the prosecution the minor has given a statement under section 164 CrPC to a magistrate and in that she has made serious allegations against the three accused Hotel 18 Vayalat and Thankachan recently came in the news in connection with the the deaths of three people including two models in a car accident which allegedly resulted as the latter was chasing them in his four-wheeler Models Ancy Kabeer 25 and Anjana Shajan 24 had died in the fatal crash on November 1 last year A third passenger in the car succumbed to his injuries a few days later According to the prosecution in that case Thankachan had allegedly stalked the models from a bar to Hotel 18 and when they left that place to avoid him he chased after them In that matter the high court granted bail to Thankachan PTI HMP SS SS