He revealed that he was the one who advised the Thantri to close the temple when young women arrived to climb the hill shrine and said he assured the Thantri that this would not be a contempt of court.
Rehana, who earlier worked as a telecom technician at BSNL, also had an acting role in a film called Eka, which focused on intersexuality.
On October 19, 2018, Fathima along with another lady accompanied by a top police official and 100 other policemen tried to go up to the temple.
She was arrested from her office in Palarivattom in Kochi on Tuesday and she will be produced before a court in Pathanamthitta later in the day.
