Maligning a woman's character without substance is a form of social violence: Kerala HC

KOCHI: (Mar 19) The Kerala High Court has observed that maligning the character of a woman without any substance is a "pernicious form of social violence".

It also observed that when a society focuses more on a woman’s image than her achievements, "it exposes its own intellectual poverty".

The observations by Justice C S Dias came while quashing the FIR registered against Malayalam film actor Shwetha Menon for allegedly publishing or transmitting obscene scenes of some of her past movies and advertisements.