Malayalam filmmaker and actor Vijay Babu has been implicated in a rape case
Malayalam filmmaker and actor Vijay Babu is facing investigation in the alleged rape case of an actress in Kerala. Police said that the Kochi city police, which was probing the case, had arrested him on Monday. Babu had on June 22 obtained anticipatory bail in the case from the Kerala High Court. Police said that Babu’s arrest has been registered and he will be released as per the conditions laid down by the high court.
Rs 5 lakh surety fixed
The High Court, while granting bail to Vijay Babu, had said that he would be released on bail on execution of two sureties of Rs 5 lakh and two sureties of like amount. During the period from June 27 to July 3, she will be deemed to be in police custody “to facilitate the requirements of the investigation”, the court had said while allowing her plea for anticipatory bail in the rape case.
Police will investigate the alleged rape case
In the meantime, Babu will be taken to the places where the alleged crime was committed by him to collect evidence, police said. The woman, who appeared in films produced by Babu’s production house, filed a police complaint on April 22 and elaborated through a Facebook post that she had been subjected to alleged physical harassment and sexual abuse at the hands of the producer-actor for the past one year. was facing. – Two and a half months.
Victim’s lawyer challenges Vijay Babu’s bail
Opposing Babu’s plea, the woman’s counsel had argued before the court that the actor-producer had allegedly “abused and misused trust in him”. It was also argued on her behalf that being a novice artist, her objections were easily subdued and she was allegedly sexually harassed repeatedly by him. Babu had claimed that he was innocent and was “extremely saddened” by the one-sided approach of the authorities to make him a “scapegoat for news and media purposes”.