Ansiba Hassan-AMMA row escalates; actor lodges second complaint against executive committee member

Actor and erstwhile associated caput of AMMA (Association of Malayalam Movie Artistes) Ansiba Hassan has lodged a petition with the Infopark constabulary successful Ernakulam district, Kerala, against histrion and AMMA enforcement committee subordinate Tini Tom implicit alleged communal remarks and derogatory comments against her.

This was her 2nd ailment against erstwhile colleagues successful the AMMA enforcement committee. Earlier, she had petitioned the Chief Minister, the Home Minister, and the State Police Chief against AMMA vice-president Lakshmi Priya, accusing her of filing a fabricated lawsuit with the Tripunithura women’s constabulary station. The ailment besides named the sub-inspector of the presumption arsenic an accused, who allegedly harassed for 3 hours implicit the fabricated case. She had already fixed her connection to the Thrikkakara Assistant Commissioner of Police successful that case.

“The latest ailment against Tini Tom is for passing communal remarks and separately making derogatory comments against maine successful the WhatsApp radical of the AMMA enforcement committee,” Ms. Hassan said. She reiterated that she has nary volition of appearing earlier the AMMA enforcement committee for a hearing.

“How tin I expect a just proceeding from the aforesaid committee against which I person complained? I americium inactive acceptable for a proceeding provided an autarkic committee is constituted for the purpose,” she added.

Last week, AMMA’s president and the caput issued a announcement asking Ms. Hassan to look for a proceeding with grounds regarding her allegations against enforcement committee members. She was asked to look connected immoderate of the archetypal 3 days of this month. The announcement stated that the enforcement committee had taken enactment of definite complaints and statements received by the association, arsenic good arsenic those reported successful the nationalist domain successful caller days, concerning the behaviour of members and the mode successful which interior matters had been handled.

In her reply, Ms. Hassan requested the constitution of a three-member autarkic sheet oregon committee for a “fair and impartial” hearing. She recommended the names of Ramesh Pisharody, Dhyan Sreenivasan, and Maala Parvathi “or immoderate unbiased personalities.” She further insisted that the full proceeding process beryllium recorded and preserved successful AMMA’s authoritative records. This, she said, was indispensable to guarantee fairness since her allegations were against the president, vice-president, and an enforcement subordinate of AMMA.

Last month, AMMA president Shwetha Menon had issued an unofficial gag bid to enforcement committee members, restraining them from making nationalist statements successful an evident effort to diffuse tensions.