Actor Manju Warrier lodges police complaint against director Menon alleging threat to life
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 23: Popular Malayalam actress Manju Warrier has lodged a police complaint against ad filmmaker-turned director Shrikumar Menon for allegedly threatening and defaming her through social media.
Menon, who had helmed the advertisements of several popular brands with Warrier in the lead role, entered tinsel town last year by directing the Mohanlal-Manju Warrier starrer "Odiyan", which failed to take off at the box office.
State police chief Loknath Behera on Tuesday confirmed here that he had received the "Asuran" actress' complaint and said necessary action would be taken after examining the complaint in detail.
However, his office was tight-lipped about the content of the complaint.
"The complaint, received by the DGP, has been handed over to a special investigation team for further action," an official at the police headquarters here told PTI.
According to local media reports, the award-winning actress levelled grave charges against Shrikumar Menon and one of his journalist friends.
She alleged that the director had threatened her and some of her close friends and tried to defame her by orchestrating a hate campaign against her on the social media, the reports said.
It also said that Warrier had handed over some digital evidence to the investigators to prove her point.
However, Shrikumar Menon, in a Facebook post, said he came to know about the police complaint only through media reports and he would cooperate with the investigation.
Unleashing a scathing attack against the actress, he said she had forgotten all the help and support he had offered during her second coming in the Malayalam industry after several years.
He also alleged that she had only Rs 1,500 in her account when she had left her home and it was he who had given her a cheque of Rs 25 lakh as advance payment of her first advertisement.
The actress has also sent a letter to the Film Employees Federation of Kerala (FEFKA) about her police complaint against Menon and sought the support of the outfit.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
