Kerala to move SC against bail to rape accused Vijay Babu
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala government has decided to approach the Supreme Court questioning the anticipatory bail granted to rape accused actor and producer Vijay Babu. The government reportedly got a legal advice that it has solid reason to challenge the bail granted by the high court (HC), a senior official said.
Though the actor was arrested on Monday he was released immediately due to prearrest bail granted by the HC.
He slipped out of the country after the police registered a case against him and came back only after the HC took up his bail plea and it will set a bad precedent, said the official adding police have every right to arrest Vijay Babu.
A single bench of justice Bechu Kurain Thomas had granted bail to Babu on June 23 who was accused of raping a Malayalam actor promising her good roles.
The court had heard the plea in detail for more than two weeks and also examined the WhatsApp and other chats between the actor and the victim. While grating bail the court observed that after examining conversation between them it found that relation between them were cordial and the victim was aware that Babu was married and no element of violence or force were seen in chats. Babu insisted that physical relation between two were consensual and she raised rape charges when she was denied prominent roles in his films.
He courted trouble after a new comer who made her debut in his film, filed a complaint accusing him of sexually abusing her several times by promising good roles and forcing her to take narcotics.
Later police booked him under Sections 376 (sexual assault), 323 (causing hurt), and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Another case was slapped later for revealing the identity of the complainant under Section 228A (sisclosure of identity of the victim of certain offences etc). The woman actor had filed a police complaint on April 22 against Babu.