New Delhi, July 4 -- Malayalam filmmaker Ranjith Balakrishnan was relieved from an unnatural sex case on Friday after the Karnataka High Court quashed the complaint filed against him by an aspiring male actor, Bar and Bench reported.

The single bench of Justice SR Krishna Kumar, in a ruling, cancelled the case after observing that the complainant's claims were false. The Judge also questioned the delay in filing the case regarding an incident that took place in 2012, the report added.

The court observed that the Taj Hotel near Bengaluru Airport, where the alleged incident supposedly occurred, only opened in 2016. The bench highlighted a glaring factual inaccuracy in the case and quashed it.

"The complaint, on the face of it, is false. ...