'Should I commit suicide or go hide somewhere?': Assaulted actress writes to CM

Malayalam actress, who was waylaid and abused in a moving car in Kochi has, at last, wrote to the Chief Minister seeking justice after she was so deeply hurt by the repeated victim shaming by PC George MLA. The letter was published on the Facebook wall of Women in Cinema Collective, the association of female technicians and actors of Malayalam film industry. 

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George had been defaming the actress, for joining back to work, by making several scathing remarks.  Women's Commission took a case against him, but this did not stop him from continuing his tirade against the actress. 

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Following this, the actress requested the Chief Minister to bring to light the shaming she had been subjected to. This is the third time she is responding after she got abused in a moving car in February. 

Here's a transcribe of her letter. 

"I never thought of writing such a letter. Politician and legislator PC George has been passing offensive remarks against me for the past few months. I am from an ordinary family and such comments deeply affect us, my father, mother and brother. I am under enormous pressure and is surviving only under the thought that I should stand strong and continue with my fight. 

"One of the members of the Assembly wanted to know how I went for my work just a day after the incident if it had actually happened. I did not go to work on the next day, as he states. It took more than a week for me to even listen to all those well wishers who asked me to come back to films. It was only after ten days that I went back to the sets of a movie for two days shooting, as I had committed it much before. It was only because of the support I got from my friends that I was able to make a comeback. 

"How can someone who represent's people make statements without knowing the truth? Did he want me to commit suicide or to be thrown to some mental asylum after the incident, or did he think that I should have hidden somewhere, away from the public," she wrote. 

The actress also mentioned about the remarks made by George against the Women's Commission and demanded action for tarnishing the panel which is seen as a hope for thousands of women in the state.

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She also said that no woman who was assaulted should be insulted in public like this and emphasised her trust in the Chief Minister hoping that she will get justice. 

Read the original letter published on Facebook.

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