Jaimala dismisses charges against her as baseless

Kannada actress Jaimala, who is in the eye of the storm over the purported desecration of the hill shrine of Sabarimala, has termed as “baseless” the charge of conspiracy levelled against her by Kerala’s crime branch police.

When reporters brought to her attention that Kerala’s crime branch police had detected a “conspiracy” in her claim that she had entered the sanctum sanctorum of the hill shrine of Sabarimala, Jaimala said “It is pure guess work by some people, who are not clear about the whole issue”.

She recalled that a team of police officials had visited her house in Bangalore immediately after the controversy broke out and had sought answers to several questions. “They seem satisfied with my replies. Now, they have come out with a conspiracy theory”, she said.

Jaimala, however, refused to answer a question on whether she knew astrologer Unnikrishna Panicker. “I have told everything to the investigation officer of the Travancore Devaswom Board and I don’t want to go into that”, she said.

She also added that it would be not be appropriate to react to something speculative. “Let the report be submitted officially and then I will comment on it”, Jaimala said when told that the report suggested that Panicker knew the actress very well and had even performed rituals for her.

“I do not want to react further on all these issues. I would prefer to wait for the complete report”, she said.

It may be mentioned here that the Kerala police’s crime branch had submitted a report hinting at the possibility of Jaimala conspiring with Panicker to defame the famous shrine and its authorities.