'The Kerala Story': police chief orders FIR against film on religious conversion & ISIS

The Kerala Police Chief has directed registration of a case following a complaint against Sudipto Sen's movie 'The Kerala Story,' which claims that 32,000 women from the state were forcibly converted and recruited to the terror outfit Islamic State.

News agency PTI reported quoting sources that State Police Chief Anil Kant has directed the Thiruvananthapuram city police commissioner to register a case and look into the complaint by a Tamil Nadu-based journalist.

The journalist has written to the Kerala chief minister, the Central Board of Film Certification and Information and Broadcasting ministry seeking a ban on the film till the makers can submit documents supporting their claims.

The complaint was sent to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan who forwarded the same to the DGP for appropriate action, the PTI reported added.

The top police official, thereafter, directed the hi-tech crime inquiry cell of the police to conduct a probe and submit a report, the report said.

Based on the cell's report, the SPC has directed registration of an FIR and investigation into the complaint.

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In the controversial teaser, actor Adah Sharma is seen saying she was a Hindu woman who was converted to Islam and recruited into the ISIS and presently languishing in a jail in Afghanistan.

She also says in the teaser that this was the story of 32,000 other women from Kerala.