Inside the twisted mind of a hired rapist |
There are some things ‘Pulsar’ Suni will not talk about. “I will never tell you, or anyone else, where the phone is,” he said matter-of-factly.
“Okay, but can you tell me if it still exists somewhere, or did you destroy it?” I asked.
He smiled, drank some water, and swatted a mosquito. “I’ve already told you too much. This is a promise I made to someone — that I will not speak about the phone. And I always keep my word.”
The phone in question is no ordinary device.
It is a crucial but missing piece of evidence in a case where Gayathri* (name changed), a leading Malayalam actor, was sexually assaulted by Pulsar Suni — once a driver to several Malayalam film elites.
On December 8, 2025, a Principal District and Sessions Court convicted Suni, along with five other men, for kidnapping Gayathri in February 2017. During the abduction, Suni sexually assaulted her in the backseat of her own car while the group drove through the bustling streets of Kochi.
This is a crime that stunned and polarised Kerala. At the nucleus of this case was one man — Malayalam superstar Dileep, who now stands acquitted.
The prosecution’s argument was that Dileep had commissioned Suni and the others to carry out the rape as an act of revenge against Gayathri for revealing his extramarital affair to his then wife, Manju Warrier.
The court, however, ultimately did not accept the prosecution’s theory of conspiracy, and Dileep was acquitted.
Suni was found guilty of charges including that of abduction and gangrape. The unsettling questions........