India, Feb. 7 -- The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed petitions challenging last year's order of the Kerala high court directing the police to register first information reports (FIR) based on the Justice Hema Committee report made public in August last year.

The apex court refused to stall the ongoing criminal proceedings initiated by the Kerala police into allegations of sexual exploitation of women actors in the Malayalam film industry after the victims had deposed before a judicial enquiry committee to report their ordeal.

Dismissing petitions filed by a filmmaker and two women actors, a bench headed by justice Vikram Nath directed that under the criminal law in force under the Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), the police i...