Malayalam actor Thilakan’s car runs over two children

TRIVANDRUM - Veteran Malayalam film actor Thilakan, who returned to the cinema after the removal of a ban by a film artistes’ body, has landed in trouble again when the car he was driving crushed to death two children on Thursday.

The vehicle in which the 73-year-old actor was going to Malappuram for a function hit the auto-rickshaw in which the two children, identified as Farzeen (6) and Fathima Fida (2), and their parents were travelling.

The accident occurred under Pandikkat police station limits in Malappuram district. The deceased’s father Firoz Khan and their mother were injured in the accident. Both have been admitted to Manjeri government 
hospital.

Thilakan, who became nervous after the accident, has also been admitted to the hospital. The Pandikkatt police have registered a case against the actor for careless driving under section 304 and 279 of the Indian 
Penal Code.

Thilakan, who has acted in more than 150 films in Malayalam and Tamil, has been passing through a bad patch in his career with the film 
bodies representing the artistes 
ostracising him for various reasons.