KOCHI: Noted Malayalam producer-actor Vijay Babu has been charged for allegedly sexually assaulting a female actor and disclosing the survivor’s identity through a Facebook live session, Kerala Police said on Wednesday.

Babu who is also the founder of the production company Friday Film House, who is reportedly in Dubai since the police charged him with rape following the woman’s complaint, appeared in a Facebook live session late in the night and claimed innocence, and disclosed the identity of the victim.

“I am not afraid as I am sure, I did not do anything wrong. I am the victim here. I know a woman had been making allegations against me since 2018. I have not had a single chat with her since then until 2021. In December, she started texting me. I have 400 screenshots of messages sent by her. I will say all this in court,” Babu said,

The woman, who appeared in a movie produced by Babu’s production house, filed a complaint with the police on April 22 and detailed through a Facebook post the physical assault and sexual exploitation she had allegedly suffered at the hands of the producer-actor for the past one-and-a-half months.

“He behaved like my saviour for my personal and professional problems but under the guise sexually exploited me,” the actor alleged in her Facebook post.