– Siddique, a senior Malayalam actor, resigned from the post of general secretary of Association of Malayalam Movie Artists (AMMA) following rape and sexual assault allegations from an actress
– The actress alleged that Siddique sexually abused and raped her in a hotel in 2016
– The resignation came a day after the actress reiterated her allegations that she first made in 2019 through a Facebook post
– The allegations come in the backdrop of the release of the Hema committee report, which shed light on incidents of sexual abuse and harassment in the Malayalam film industry
– Siddique denied the existence of a ‘casting couch’ in the industry and attributed the testimonies in the Hema report to ‘few isolated incidents’