Kochi: A case has been registered against Malayalam director Sreekumar Menon on the basis of a sexual assault complaint filed by a junior artist. 

The complaint is that the director sexually assaulted the artist at a hotel.

The junior artist revealed that she was called by Menon to the hotel promising that she would be given a chance in an advertisement and then sexually assaulted her. 

The Maradu Police took up the case on the basis of the complaint of the junior artist hailing from Kottayam filed through an e-mail. The case has been handed over to a Special Investigation Team for further investigation.

Many prominent figures like director Ranjith, actor and MLA Mukesh, actors Jayasurya and Edavela Babu and actor-producer Maniyanpilla Raju, in the Malayalam cinema industry, are now facing cases following shocking revelations by many women artists in the industry in the wake of the release of the Hema Committee report that looked into the injustices meted out to the women in the Malayalam film industry.