Vijay Babu
Kochi: Vijay Babu has taken flight ticket to Kerala for May 30, his advocate informed the Kerala High Court on Tuesday.
The court had asserted that the anticipatory bail plea of the actor-producer in the sexual assault case against him will be considered only if he produces copy of the flight ticket.
Babu, on May 30, will be flying down to Kochi from Dubai. The counsel has also requested the court to consider the anticipatory bail on Wednesday.
Babu has been on the run since he was booked over sexual assault case. Reports said he fled to Dubai and from there to Georgia. Amid this, the police had approached Interpol and Babu was issued with blue corner notice. The officials were planning to issue red corner notice to him, while parallely his counsel filed am anticipatory bail plea informed the Kerala High Court that the accused is ready to cooperate with the probe. At this juncture, the court said he has to first come under their jurisdiction and asked for his ticket and posted the case for next week.
Vijay Babu is booked for sexual assault and disclosing the survivor’s identity through social media. The complainant, an actress, lodged the police complaint on April 22. She was physically and sexually assaulted for the past one-and-a-half months, as per the complaint. In his anticipatory bail plea, Vijay Babu said the allegations against him were an attempt to blackmail him and that he was the real victim.