WCC has alerted Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan of what it termed as an try to reveal the id and jeopardise the privateness of girls artistes and technicians who deposed in entrance of the Hema Committee.

Ladies in Cinema Collective (WCC), an advocacy group that champions girls’s rights and equality of sexes within the leisure business, has alerted Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan of what it termed as an try to reveal the id and jeopardise the privateness of girls artistes and technicians who deposed in entrance of the Ok. Hema Committee, which documented scores of cases of allegedly pervasive sexual exploitation and abuse within the Malayalam film business. 

In a Fb publish on Monday (September 16, 2024), the WCC singled out a Malayalam tv information channel for allegedly conducting a trial by media based mostly on cherry-picked data, insinuations and innuendos, which the WCC feared might probably reveal the id of the survivors who braved private {and professional} odds to testify earlier than the committee.

The WCC mentioned the “irresponsible reporting” has put the ladies in extreme misery and instilled anxiousness in them. It accused the information channel of inflicting extra grief to survivors whereas projecting itself as a protector of their rights.

The WCC identified that the unredacted report, together with extremely confidential annexures and addendums, was now within the possession of the particular investigation workforce (SIT).  

The WCC feared that some individuals who have been aware about the report is perhaps the supply of the scandalous media leaks. It requested Mr. Vijayan’s pressing intervention.

The federal government had constituted the SIT, comprising 4 girls IPS officers, to analyze alleged cases of rape and sexual abuse within the movie business, which emerged in typical and social media quickly after a redacted model of the committee’s damning report in 2019 appeared within the public area final month.

Subsequently, the Kerala Excessive Courtroom, which thought of the Hema Committee report, tasked the SIT with probing the findings.

The courtroom additionally requested stakeholders, together with the State and the media, to desist from any motion that might reveal the id of those that appeared earlier than the committee. 

Final week, some WCC members met Mr. Vijayan in individual on the latter’s workplace within the authorities Secretariat and requested that the State shield the id of the ladies who appeared earlier than the committee.