Kerala High Court To Form a Special Bench To Deal Cases Related with Hema Committee Report

The Kerala High Court on  Thursday announced the creation of a two-member panel to preserve cases stemming from the eye-opening revelations of the Hema Committee report related to violence against females in Malayalam cinema. This exclusive bench will have the presence of a female justice and can include Justice A K Jayasankaran Nambir and Justice CS Sudha. It became producer Sajimon Parayil’s plea, soliciting for proactive steps to keep away from the widespread publicity of the total Hema Committee report, which prompted this development.

Kerala HC To Form Special Bench

A report by Manorama stated that it truly is a ways yet to be known if the bench will maintain the sexual assault cases. Meanwhile, Kollam MLA Mukesh and actor Edavela Babu, accused of rape after a lady co-actor complained, are waiting for the High Court to have confidence their anticipatory bail pleas. The government, on the alternative hand, is against the premise of granting these two bail.

An awful lot of leading personalities from the Malayalam film fraternity are being identified for unfortunate incidents of sexual harassment and assault, supported by more than one witnesses. This has resulted all of the way during the lodging of tons of official police reports. The accused list includes the likes of performers Siddique, Jayasurya, Maniyanpilla Raju, Mukesh, Edavela Babu, Alencier, and Nivin Pauly together with movie directors akin to Ranjith and Bhadran. These serious allegations emerge all of the way during the wake of the Justice K Hema Committee report liberate.

About Hema Committee Report

In 2017, an actress assault case shed light on grave issues all of the way during the Malayalam film industry, uncovering instances of girls’s in poor health-treatment and exploitation. As allegations of sexual harassment against a considerable choice of industry actors and directors came to fore, the Kerala government sprung into action. On August 25, they announced the establishment of a different investigation team, composed of seven members, entrusted with the responsibility of probing into these serious claims.