Docu maker complains of threat calls

MADURAI: A city-based woman activist-turned-documentary

filmmaker

has filed a petition with the city police against unknown people who have been allegedly abusing her over phone for the past few days.

Divya Bharathi, known for her documentary 'Kakkoos' based on the prevalence of manual scavenging in the state and its caste angle, said that she had been flooded with more than 1,000 phones calls and messages threatening her and family members in the past few days. This has caused her extreme mental agony, she said.

Divya Bharathi said she was being targeted only after she was arrested last week in connection with a 2009 students' protest.

“About 40% of the calls are being made through internet which makes it impossible to trace the perpetrators. Although most of them introduced themselves as party men from

Puthiya Thamilagam

and other outfits of a particular community , when I checked many numbers belonged to BJP cadres,“ she alleged.