By PTI
KOZHIKODE: Even as famous writer and social activist Civic Chandran is at massive and awaiting a court docket order on his anticipatory bail in a sexual harassment case, one other lady author has lodged an identical grievance towards him.
In her plea filed earlier than the Koyilandi police right here on Friday, the lady author accused Chandran of constructing sexual advances throughout a ebook exhibition within the city in February 2020.
A second case was filed towards Chandran based mostly on this grievance, police stated.
It was late final week {that a} lady author, belonging to a Scheduled Tribe group, had approached regulation enforcers alleging sexual harassment by the writer.
The complainant had accused Chandran of misbehaviour amounting to sexual misconduct throughout a ebook launch perform held in April.
Since then, he had been repeatedly disturbing her over the telephone, the complainant had alleged.
Acting on the grievance, police had registered a case for sexual offence moreover one other case beneath the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
However, police couldn’t register his arrest as Chandran had absconded.
Meanwhile, a court docket right here on Saturday posted its orders within the anticipatory bail petition, moved by the accused, for August 2.
KOZHIKODE: Even as famous writer and social activist Civic Chandran is at massive and awaiting a court docket order on his anticipatory bail in a sexual harassment case, one other lady author has lodged an identical grievance towards him.
In her plea filed earlier than the Koyilandi police right here on Friday, the lady author accused Chandran of constructing sexual advances throughout a ebook exhibition within the city in February 2020.
A second case was filed towards Chandran based mostly on this grievance, police stated.
It was late final week {that a} lady author, belonging to a Scheduled Tribe group, had approached regulation enforcers alleging sexual harassment by the writer.
The complainant had accused Chandran of misbehaviour amounting to sexual misconduct throughout a ebook launch perform held in April.
Since then, he had been repeatedly disturbing her over the telephone, the complainant had alleged.
Acting on the grievance, police had registered a case for sexual offence moreover one other case beneath the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
However, police couldn’t register his arrest as Chandran had absconded.
Meanwhile, a court docket right here on Saturday posted its orders within the anticipatory bail petition, moved by the accused, for August 2.
