Arrested for alleged misbehaviour with kids, Malayalam actor Sreejith Ravi gets bail

Kochi: A sessions court in Kerala granted bail to Malayalam actor Sreejith Ravi on Friday, a day after he was arrested by the police for misbehaving with school children.

Additional District Court judge K P Indira granted bail to the actor on the condition that he deposits Rs one lakh and two solvent sureties of the like amount, surrenders his passport and appears before the investigating officer every week.

Ravi was arrested on Thursday for alleged inappropriate conducts in front of a group of students. A group of girl students told police in Ottapalam that Ravi had taken their photos using his mobile phone and alleged that he had “flashed them” while making inappropriate gestures.

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Police had arrested Ravi after a car registration number — which was part of the girls’ complaint, was traced back to him. The actor has however maintained that it was “not him”.

“The number of the car provided by the girls is mine. But I was not involved in any such incident. The girls might have mistakenly noted down the car's number. If I committed the offense, the students would have told the police my name. I think children recognise me,” he was quoted as saying in reports.

Police said Ravi was arrested under Section 509 of IPC (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of women) from a film shooting location at Ottapalam here. Ravi has acted in both Malayalam and Tamil films and usually plays the villian in the movies.