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The Kerala Police connected Wednesday (December 24, 2025) formally recorded the apprehension of movie manager and former autarkic legislator P.T. Kunju Muhammed successful a lawsuit concerning the alleged outraging of the modesty of a pistillate filmmaker.
The constabulary questioned Mr Muhammed astatine the Cantonment constabulary station. They released him from custody successful accordance with a territory tribunal bid granting the manager anticipatory bail and extortion from arrest.
Mr Muhammed chaired the assemblage which selected Malayalam films for the precocious concluded 30th variation of the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK).
The constabulary lawsuit was that connected November 6, Mr Muhammed invited the pistillate to his suite country successful a posh edifice connected the pretext of discussing the movie enactment process and outraged her modesty, forcing her to flee.
According to the police, the pistillate filed a ailment nether the POSH Act (Prevention of Sexual Harassment astatine Workplace Act) with the Kerala Chalachitra Academy.
Subsequently, connected November 26, the pistillate petitioned Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who forwarded the ailment to the State Police Chief Ravada Chandrasekhar, resulting successful the registration of a intersexual battle lawsuit astatine the Cantonment constabulary station.
The constabulary person charged Mr Muhammed with outraging the modesty of a woman, amerciable detention, intimidation, and trespass nether the applicable sections of the Bharatiya Nagarika Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS).
Investigators said they recorded the woman’s connection in-camera earlier a judicial magistrate nether Section 183 of the BNSS past week. The pistillate has besides submitted the mobilephone she had utilized to pass with Mr Muhammed for forensic examination.
The constabulary person interviewed edifice employees and gathered CCTV footage applicable to the case. Investigators said they would interrogation Kerala Chalachitra Academy office-bearers and different filmmakers to ascertain the inheritance of the crime.
Charges denied
Mr Muhammed has since denied the allegation. He said the accusation stemmed from a “possible misunderstanding” of his actions and expressed his willingness to render a nationalist apology.
