Actor Shwetha Menon approaches Kerala High Court searching for to quash FIR

Actor Shwetha Menon approached the Kerala High Court on Thursday (August 7, 2025) searching for to quash an FIR registered towards her by the Ernakulam Central Police on the cost that she carried out roles in motion pictures having alleged vulgar and obscene contents for monetary features and that the contents have been transmitted by way of social media and grownup websites to achieve reputation.

She had thus been charged below Section 67(A) of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and below Sections 3 and 5 of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 based mostly on a grievance by Martin Menachery, an Ernakulam resident, after the Ernakulam Chief Judicial Magistrate Court issued a directive to the police.

Alleging that the FIR was malafide and ill-motivated, Ms. Menon submitted in her petition earlier than the High Court that the flicks had been licensed by the CBFC and have been publicly exhibited years in the past.

“I’ve good repute in society and have been implicated as an accused in against the law due to senseless reference of a grievance to the police by a Justice of the Peace. The grievance raises absurd and fanciful allegations which don’t entice the offences alleged even prima facie,” she mentioned.

It is essential to notice that the character that the petitioner portrayed within the movie Paleri Manikyam, which the complainant says as obscene, bagged the Kerala State award for finest actress. The different movies made point out of (by the complainant) too have been accepted and appreciated in public area by their high quality as an entire, she mentioned within the petition.

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These movies have been created by artistes who have been on the pinnacle of proficiency of their respective fields. An look in a condom commercial too was duly censored and authorized and is obtainable within the public area, she mentioned within the petition.

The FIR towards the actor has come at a time when she is contesting for the submit of the president of the Association of Malayalam Movie Artistes (AMMA), within the election to the manager committee of the actors’ physique to be held on August 15.