Actor Vinayakan landed in trouble on Thursday as the Ernakulam Town North police registered a case against him for a video posted on social media that was perceived as derogatory of the departed Congress leader Oommen Chandy even as the funeral procession of the former Chief Minister was winding its way to his home constituency Puthuppally.
Though the actor pulled down the post in the face of an avalanche of criticism, damage was done by then as the video ended up being widely circulated on social media. In the video, a sarcastic sounding Vinayakan could be heard asking who was Oommen Chandy, while stating that he could not accept the late leader as a good human being as being painted by the media while invoking the late Congress leader K. Karunakaran in the process.
He also asked the media to stop coverage of Chandy’s death and questioned the need for three days’ mourning.
