Actor Shwetha Menon approached the Kerala Excessive Court docket on Thursday (August 7, 2025) searching for to quash an FIR registered in opposition to her by the Ernakulam Central Police on the cost that she carried out roles in films having alleged vulgar and obscene contents for monetary beneficial properties and that the contents had been transmitted through social media and grownup websites to realize reputation.
She had thus been charged underneath Part 67(A) of the Data Expertise Act, 2000 and underneath Sections 3 and 5 of the Immoral Site visitors (Prevention) Act, 1956 primarily based on a grievance by Martin Menachery, an Ernakulam resident, after the Ernakulam Chief Judicial Justice of the Peace Court docket issued a directive to the police.
Alleging that the FIR was malafide and ill-motivated, Ms. Menon submitted in her petition earlier than the Excessive Court docket that the flicks had been licensed by the CBFC and had been publicly exhibited years in the past.
“I have good reputation in society and have been implicated as an accused in a crime because of mindless reference of a complaint to the police by a magistrate. The complaint raises absurd and fanciful allegations which do not attract the offences alleged even prima facie,” she mentioned.
It’s essential to notice that the character that the petitioner portrayed within the movie Paleri Manikyam, which the complainant says as obscene, bagged the Kerala State award for greatest actress. The opposite movies made point out of (by the complainant) too had been accepted and appreciated in public area by their high quality as an entire, she mentioned within the petition.
These movies had been created by artistes who had been on the pinnacle of proficiency of their respective fields. An look in a condom commercial too was duly censored and authorized and is obtainable within the public area, she mentioned within the petition.
The FIR in opposition to the actor has come at a time when she is contesting for the put up of the president of the Affiliation of Malayalam Film Artistes (AMMA), within the election to the manager committee of the actors’ physique to be held on August 15.
Printed – August 07, 2025 01:46 pm IST
