Overview
- Justice Kauser Edappagath orally recused from the survivor's petition when it was listed on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, leaving the case without a bench for hearing.
- Earlier this week Justice Jobin Sebastian stepped aside because he had served as a district judiciary registrar when the survivor filed an administrative complaint.
- The survivor asks the High Court to quash an Ernakulam inquiry report that found the memory card holding videos of the 2017 assault was accessed three times while in judicial custody without permission.
- She is seeking a time‑bound Special Investigation Team that includes cyber and digital‑forensics experts and an independent scientific analysis of whether the card's contents could have been copied or transmitted.
- With both recusals the petition remains to be re‑listed, delaying a technical probe that could affect the chain of custody for critical visual evidence and shape future appeals or retrials.