'I've also learnt music and dance, this is what happened that day', Judge says he did not have any role in interrupting Neena Prasad's dance

PALAKKAD: District Judge Kalam Pasha has come up with an explanation on the incident where dancer Neena Prasad's Mohiniyattam performance was interrupted. Expressing his dissatisfaction with the protest organised by a group of lawyers in the court premises, he wrote a letter to the President of the Bar Association.

"The action of the advocates is a violation of the High Court judgment. I've learnt Carnatic music for six years. I had also performed Bharatanatyam. It was my employee, not me, who asked the DySP to reduce the sound from the venue," the judge stated in the letter.

Pasha, who expressed dismay over the allegation that he interrupted the performance due to religious matters, added that the protest organised by the lawyers in the court was illegal.

The controversy erupted after Neena Prasad alleged in a Facebook post that the police had intervened and stopped the Mohiniyattam concert held at Moyan LP School in Palakkad.

Neena Prasad had alleged that the police took the action at the request of District Judge Kalam Pasha, who lives next to the school. Lawyers protested in the court premises following Nina Prasad's Facebook post.