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The Women successful Cinema Collective (WCC), an outfit of women professionals successful the Malayalam movie industry, connected Saturday (December 27, 2025) sharpened its disapproval against the Kerala Government implicit a molestation lawsuit involving filmmaker and erstwhile MLA P.T. Kunhi Muhammed.
In a hard-hitting Facebook post, the outfit alleged that though the survivor, a pistillate movie professional, had sent a confidential missive detailing the incidental to the Chief Minister, his bureau did not contented immoderate nonstop effect to the complainant contempt taking definite steps subsequently.
An FIR was registered lone 8 days later, aft signaling her statement, and it was pursuing repeated requests from the survivor, it alleged successful the post. The constabulary did not publically explicate the hold successful converting the connection into an FIR, it said.
During these 8 days, Kerala State Chalachitra Academy chairperson Resul Pookutty, vice-chairperson Kuku Parameswaran, and others spoke to the subsister some implicit the telephone and successful person, assuring her of each imaginable support, the outfit explained.
However, lone 1 enactment taken arsenic per their assurance was to region Mr. Muhammed’s sanction from the IFFK handbook and not inviting him to the festival, the FB station added.
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The assurances that semipermanent solutions would beryllium announced connected the IFFK signifier to forestall specified incidents successful the future, and that a zero-tolerance argumentation would beryllium strictly implemented successful this regard, person erstwhile again remained specified promises, the outfit said.
Although the Kerala Women’s Commission stated that it had accepted the ailment related to this case, nary accusation has been disposable regarding the continuation of immoderate proceedings.
Until conscionable earlier the media made the lawsuit public, the constabulary had told the subsister that registering the FIR could instrumentality up to 14 days. However, instantly aft the media reported the issue, the FIR was registered, the WCC alleged.
The outfit pointed retired that women leaders from the ruling beforehand person been asking the subsister to basal firm, assuring her of their enactment “On the different hand, representatives of the ruling constitution and elder figures from the movie manufacture person been repeatedly pressuring the subsister to fto the accused spell free, citing his carnal ailments. As a result, the subsister is being pushed into greater distress and pressure,” the WCC alleged.
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Even aft an FIR nether non-bailable sections was registered connected December 8, the authorities showed nary urgency successful arresting the accused and remained inactive until the civic assemblage polls and the IFFK were over, it alleged.
Eventually, aft arguments connected the bail plea successful the Sessions Court, the accused was granted bail considering his age. Subsequently, the apprehension was formally recorded and helium was released connected bail, it pointed out.
“Those lasting by him judge that helium has either escaped oregon been deliberately protected. This erstwhile again makes it wide who the strategy genuinely serves,” it said.
“The judicial strategy and the authorities machinery, irrespective of governmental differences, proceed to soundlessness survivors,” the WCC alleged. Though the government, the media, and the nationalist repeatedly proclaim that they are with the survivors successful battle cases, the dilatory and ineffective implementation of authoritative announcements is unacceptable, it noted.
“Ours is simply a humble effort to alteration the strategy to guarantee justness for women. We volition proceed this struggle. We basal successful solidarity with the galore survivors who person been silenced nether the shadiness of antheral dominance,” the WCC added.
The WCC, which had criticised the State authorities successful the substance earlier arsenic well, came up with the caller connection days aft a tribunal present had granted anticipatory bail to the movie director.
Additional District and Sessions Judge Rekha R granted the alleviation to the erstwhile MLA aft proceeding the arguments of the nationalist authoritative and the defence counsel successful detail.
Earlier this month, Cantonment Police registered a lawsuit against him pursuing a ailment that helium had allegedly molested the pistillate astatine a edifice wherever they were staying to prime Malayalam films for the precocious held International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK).
