Actor Shine Tom Chacko (file)
| Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT

Malayalam actor Shine Tom Chacko and and four others who were arrested following a police raid in January 2015 from an apartment at Kadavanthra in Kochi, Kerala, on the charge of possessing cocaine were acquitted by a trial court on Tuesday (February 11, 2025).

The Additional District and Sessions Judge, Ernakulam, acquitted them citing how the prosecution was unable to prove the charges levelled against them under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985.

The four others, models, were arraigned as accused in the case. The case trial began in 2018.

In their plea, the prosecution had relied on, among others, digital evidence and a test report from the forensic lab. One among the arrested women models had reportedly procured the cocaine from Goa.

A Nigerian national who is said to have supplied 10 gm cocaine to her had been arrested by the police.