Up to date on: Dec 25, 2025 02:58 pm IST
Malayalam filmmaker Kunju Muhammed had secured an anticipatory bail from the courtroom forward of his arrest for alleged molestation.
Malayalam filmmaker and former MLA, PT Kunju Muhammed, has been arrested in reference to an molestation case involving a girl from the movie trade. He approached the courtroom final weekend to hunt anticipatory bail within the case days earlier than his arrest. Muhammed was launched on bail after his arrest was recorded.
Kunju Muhammed arrested and launched on bail
On Wednesday, police confirmed to PTI that filmmaker and former MLA Muhammed was arrested in reference to an alleged molestation. He appeared earlier than officers probing the case on the Cantonement Police Station on Tuesday, and his arrest was formally recorded.
On Saturday, December 20, Muhammed had approached a Kochi courtroom to safe anticipatory bail. The general public prosecutor opposed the bail plea, citing that the ‘allegations had been severe in nature’ and that the bail might ‘have an effect on the investigation’. Nevertheless, Further District and Periods Decide Rekha R granted him reduction after listening to each arguments.
The case towards Kunju Muhammed
Early in December, the Cantonment Police registered a case towards Muhammed following a grievance by a girl alleging that the filmmaker had molested her. She claimed the incident befell at a lodge the place they had been staying to pick movies for the just lately held Worldwide Movie Pageant of Kerala (IFFK).
Muhammed’s defence has argued that the allegations towards him had been false and identified that the ‘grievance was initially submitted to the chief minister (Pinarayi Vijayan) slightly than the police’. He was directed by the courtroom to look earlier than the investigating officer for interrogation inside seven days and to cooperate with the investigation. The police had been instructed to launch the filmmaker-former MLA on bail if he had been arrested in the course of the investigation.
Who’s Kunju Muhammed?
Muhammed is a director and producer within the Malayalam movie trade. A graduate of Arithmetic from St. Thomas Faculty, Thrissur, he debuted in Mollywood with the 1993 movie Magrib with Sreenivasan. He has directed critically acclaimed movies akin to Garshom (1998), Paradeshi (2007) with Mohanlal, and Veeraputhran (2011).
He is without doubt one of the founding administrators of Kairali TV and at present presents this system Pravasalokam on it. Muhammed was elected twice to the Kerala legislative meeting as a Left Unbiased candidate in 1994 and 1996. He’s married to Ayishabi, and so they have two kids. Muhammed has but to make a press release on these allegations.
