Overview
- Police recorded the arrest at Thiruvananthapuram’s Cantonment police station and released him the same day under a December 20 bail order.
- He is accused of calling a woman filmmaker to his hotel suite on November 6 during IFFK selection work, where police say he outraged her modesty.
- Investigators have cited offenses including outraging modesty, illegal detention, intimidation and trespass under relevant BNSS provisions.
- The woman first filed a POSH complaint with the Kerala Chalachitra Academy and later petitioned the chief minister, after which a case was registered in early December.
- Police have taken her in-camera statement, sent her phone for forensic analysis, reviewed CCTV and interviewed hotel staff, while the director denies wrongdoing and describes the episode as a misunderstanding.