MUMBAI: The attorneys of Roman Polanski have filed an appeal asking that a special counsel be appointed to investigate alleged judicial and prosecutorial misconduct in the fugitive director‘s 32-year-old sex case.

They cited new evidence provided by the original prosecutor in the case who testified in a recent series of secret sessions that he tried to disqualify the original judge in 1977 on grounds of misconduct but was ordered by his superiors not to do so.

The attorneys also accused the current prosecutors of giving wrong information to Swiss authorities on the topic of Polanski‘s extradition to the United States in spite of knowing very well that his potential sentence did not fall within Swiss requirements to order his return.

Swiss authorities have said that they will extradite Polanski only if they know he will be sentenced to at least six months behind bars.

Polanski remains under house arrest under electronic monitoring at his chalet in Gstaad, Switzerland. The appeal noted that he has served 69 days in a Swiss prison and over 100 days in house arrest since he was picked up by authorities there last September.