Court rules that man accused of the attempted abduction of a child in Dublin should be named [Video]

A JUDGE HAS ruled that a student charged with the attempted abduction of a young boy from a Dublin apartment building should be named.

Visak Rajesh Leela, 25, who is originally from India, was arrested following a party on Saturday and was refused bail today.  

He was allegedly seen walking out with the five-year-old “under his arm”.

Judge Alan Mitchell heard a jury would have to decide if “it was extremely misguided, foolish horseplay by a drunk man or something more sinister”.

“We are absolutely adamant that it was the former,” defence solicitor Michael Kelleher told Cloverhill District Court.

Mr Leela, a postgraduate student who has lived in south Dublin for ten months, made no bail application at Dublin District Court on Monday.

At that stage, another judge had ordered the media not to name him after gardaí cited the “sensitivity” of the case “in the current climate”.

However, when …