The Supreme Court today heard in brief petitions challenging the Kerala High Court's October 14 direction to the police to register FIRs on statements made by women actors to the Justice Hema Committee regarding the abuses they faced in the Malayalam cinema industry. In the October 14 order, a Special Bench of Justices A. K. Jayasankaran Nambiar and C. S. …
The Kerala government on Thursday informed a Special Division Bench of the Kerala High Court that the preliminary inquiry being conducted under the close supervision of senior police officers into the cases arising out of the Hema Committee report would be completed before December-end. The submission was made in a progress report filed by the State government in response to …
Kerala’s Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan has accused the Left front government of “being with the hunters and not the victims” by not bringing the findings of the K. Hema Committee report under the ambit of the special investigation team constituted for conducting a preliminary inquiry into allegations of sexual harassment in the Malayalam film industry. “The press release …
