Documentary filmmaker Divya Bharathi seeks advance bail

MADURAI: Documentary filmmaker K Divya Bharathi, 27, of “Kakkoos” fame approached the Madurai bench of the Madras High court on Wednesday seeking anticipatory bail.
In her advance bail petition, Divya said police had registered a case against her under the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act in connection with her new documentary on government measures during cyclone Ockhi.
She stated that policemen in plainclothes thronged her house on July 3 when she was not at home and searched it.The policemen told her father that they wanted to question her about a documentary on cyclone Ockhi which she is working on. The trailer of the “Orutharum Varela” documentary was released on YouTube recently.
On hearing about the police search in her house, Divya, who enrolled as a lawyer recently, reached Madurai. “When I was in the Madurai district court, a policeman in plainclothes approached me and asked me to go with him for an inquiry in connection with the documentary,” she said in her petition.
Contending that police action was intimidating, Divya moved the high court seeking advance bail.
The court will take up her petition on Friday.