Actor Ansiba Hassan moves Kerala HC against Magistrate order refusing to register FIR on her complaint

Actor Ansiba Hassan has approached the Kerala High Court aggrieved by an order of the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, Ernakulam, refusing to register a case on her complaint against a video allegedly containing sexually coloured and defamatory statements made by another actor, Lakshmipriya.

Ms. Hassan also sought directives to the Magistrate to direct the police to register an FIR based on her complaint and conduct a fair and impartial investigation.

The plea contended that the Magistrate had committed an error in concluding that Ms. Hassan’s allegations only disclosed the offence of defamation and disregarded her grievance that the accused in her complaint had deliberately outraged her modesty by publishing sexually coloured remarks through social media. She pointed out that whether an act amounted to outraging the modesty of woman could not be determined by the opinion of the police or the Magistrate at the pre-investigation stage under the law.