Actor-Producer Vijay Babu has been accused of sexually assaulting a feminine actor.
A case was registered towards Vijay Babu for alleged rape on April 22 after which 5 days later he was slapped with one other case for disclosing the sufferer’s identification.
Kerala High Court will hear the anticipatory bail plea of Malayalam actor-cum-producer Vijay Babu in an alleged rape case towards him immediately. While listening to, a single bench of Justice Gopinath P noticed that Babu has been in Dubai for the reason that case was registered and that it could be higher to grant him interim safety in order that he comes again to India.
After the prosecution opposed this, Court requested the prosecution, “Are you playing to the gallery or trying to ensure the victim gets justice? If we don’t bring him here, how will she get justice?”
On Tuesday, Babu submitted air tickets earlier than the Kerala High Court indicating his return to India on May 30. The tickets had been submitted in court docket a day after it stated that his plea for anticipatory bail can be thought-about solely after he produces journey paperwork indicating his return to the nation. His attorneys additionally instructed the court docket that every one the opposite paperwork can be submitted earlier than it on Wednesday. Babu, in his plea, has alleged that the rape case has been filed towards him to blackmail him.
He has been accused of allegedly sexually assaulting a feminine actor and disclosing the survivor girl’s identification via a Facebook dwell session, in clear violation of the legislation.
In his anticipatory bail plea, the producer-turned-actor stated that “the present trend” was that for the sake of publicity anyone could make sexual allegations towards anyone to tarnish the picture of an individual who’s having recognition within the society.
“The police are also guided by media reports and they wanted to finish the chapter by arresting the petitioner for the purpose of creating news for the media due to the pressure from media people,” Babu stated in his plea.
He claimed that he was harmless and was “highly aggrieved” by the one-sided strategy of the authorities to make him a “scapegoat for the purpose of news and the media.”
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