Overview
- Ranjith, produced in Kochi on Saturday, was remanded to three days of police custody pending a bail hearing set for April 7.
- Police registered an FIR on March 28 and say they corroborated the actress’s account before arresting him in Thodupuzha.
- The complaint states he called the actress into a caravan on the Fort Kochi set and tried to assault her.
- A Special Investigation Team is leading the probe and plans to gather forensic and circumstantial evidence from the caravan.
- His initial lawyer, Mohammed Siyad, quit after criticism over his role on the film’s Internal Complaints Committee, and senior advocate S. Rajeev has now appeared for the defense.