Liju Krishna, who is making his directorial debut with the much-awaited upcoming Nivin Pauly starrer film ‘Padavettu’, has been reportedly taken into police custody on the grounds of an alleged rape filed by a crew member in the film. The case was filed at the Kakkanad Infopark station after a complaint was filed by a young woman, who was part of the film crew. "Liju Krishna has been arrested under section 376 IPC. We cannot give out any details of the complainant, but she isn't from the film industry as such. Instead, [she] is someone well known to him," a police officer said. Liju was taken into custody on Sunday from the upcoming movie's location at Kannur.

Padavettu is an upcoming Malayalm movie starring Manju Warrier, Aditi Balan and Nivin Pauly in the lead. Produced by actor Sunny Wayne, the script of Padavettu is also penned by Liju. The music for 'Padavettu' is by Govind Vasantha. Deepak D Menon is the Director of Photography and Shafeque Muhamm is the Editor. Padavettu which is under production is expected to release this year.

Meanwhile, in a separate case, a Kochi-based popular tattoo artist Sujeesh PS was also arrested by the Kerala Police on Sunday after 6 of his women clients alleged of rape, sexual assault, and molestation against him. Sujeesh was arrested when he was on his way to reach his advocate's office on Saturday.

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