Shine Tom Chacko says lack of influence led to his entrapment in cocaine case: ‘I am an ordinary person’

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Referring to a recent incident in Alappuzha district where a woman was arrested with hybrid ganja, Shine Tom Chacko stated that the media had linked his name to this case too without any concrete proof. “To my knowledge, no investigating officer has hinted at my involvement in the case,” he added. It may be mentioned here that following the arrest of the accused person in the said case, several reports had emerged claiming that she alleged that actors Shine Tom Chacko and Sreenath Bhasi were among those who received drugs from her.

In the midst of the fresh controversy, his acquittal from the 2015 drug case has come as a relief for Shine. The actor and four women – Reshma Rangaswamy, assistant director Blessy Sylvester, Tincy Babu and Sneha Babu – were acquitted by the Ernakulam First Additional District and Sessions Judge Sulekha M after finding serious lapses in the police inquiry. The case pertained to the alleged seizure of cocaine and the arrest of five, including Shine, on January 31, 2015, from a flat in Kadavanthra.