The Congress-led opposition UDF on Friday continued to attack the Left government in Kerala, accusing it of shielding those responsible for the instances of sexual exploitation, drug abuse and criminalisation of the film industry uncovered in the Justice Hema Committee report.

Demanding a probe by a special team led by a female IPS officer into the instances revealed in the report, Leader of Opposition in the State Assembly V D Satheesan also accused Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan of lying by saying that Justice Hema did not want the findings to be revealed.

Satheesan claimed that Justice Hema only said that the report be made public in accordance with the Supreme Court's directive that the information of victims of sexual exploitation should not be revealed.

"The CM misinterpreted it and lied," he alleged while speaking at a protest programme organised by the Mahila Congress in Kochi.

The allegation was refuted by CPI(M) state secretary M V Govindan who said that the government's Culture Department had the letter written by Justice Hema.

Govindan, at a press conference in Thiruvananthapuram, reiterated what the CM had said a few days ago regarding the release of the report and the steps taken by the government based on it.

He also said that now the matter was before the Kerala High Court, and further steps would be taken in accordance with the court's directions.

Satheesan, while speaking in Kochi, accused the state government, the CM and the Culture Ministers in the previous and current Left administration of covering up the findings in the report for more than four years.

He contended that the government was obligated to file a case and investigate when a crime had been committed.