The Kerala Excessive Court docket on Tuesday (September 24, 2024) dismissed an anticipatory bail petition filed by Malayalam actor Siddique searching for bail in a case referring to sexual assault of a girl actor.
The actor has been charged with offences below below Sections 376 (rape) and 506 (felony intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) on a grievance of the lady actor.
He contended in his petition that the grievance was a part of a deliberate and calculated effort to implicate him falsely within the case and that the allegations are imprecise.
He additional argued that the complainant couldn’t state even essentially the most fundamental element concerning the date of the alleged incident. He claimed that the girl had been harassing him and making false accusations in opposition to him since 2019. She had repeatedly made unsubstantiated and false claims of “tried sexual misconduct” by the petitioner at a theatre in Thiruvananthapuram in 2016 the place a preview of a movie was held.
Now, she had come out with a “contradictory allegation” of a extra severe crime of rape at a distinct location – a room at a resort in Thiruvananthapuram the identical yr. As she now realised that the theatre was inherently unsuitable for non-verbal sexual acts, she now alleged that the incident occurred in a resort room, the actor alleged.
Printed – September 24, 2024 11:02 am IST