DILEEP JUST ONE OF THE MANY
MALAYALAM ACTOR DILEEP’S ARREST IN CONNECTION WITH THE ALLEGED ABDUCTION AND RAPE OF AN ACTRESS LAYS BARE THE SEAMY UNDERBELLY OF A GLAMOUR INDUSTRY OF STARRY HAVES AND MANY HAVE NOTS CAUGHT IN TINSEL TRAPS. BUT DILEEP IS NOT THE ONLY ONE.
CHENNAI EXPRESS
The film industry’s diary of charges of sexual abuse is long. SHAKTI KAPOOR A sting operation saw Shakti Kapoor and Aman Verma asking an undercover reporter sexual favours in exchange for a career In January, a case was filed against
Chennai Express producer Karim Morani after a 25-year-old woman alleged he had raped her on multiple occasions in Mumbai
SHINEY AHUJA
Shiney Ahuja was on his way to becoming the next big thing in B-town with his brooding turn in films such as Gangster but it all went south when his maid accused him of rape in 2009. She later retracted her charge but the trial court judge refused to accept it and convicted Ahuja.
PEEPLI LIVE
Peepli Live co-director Mahmood Farooqui has also been convicted and sentenced for seven years for the rape of an American scholar from Columbia University in 2015. Farooqui said he was falsely implicated.
VARALAXMI
Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, a Tamil actress and daughter of veteran actor-politicianactor R. Sarathkumar, recently spoke out about her casting couch experience with the programming head of a leading TV channel
MADHUR BHANDARKAR
In some instances, as it happened with director Madhur Bhandarkar, the cases have been dismissed. A model, Preeti Jain, accused him of rape in 2004. But the case took a U-turn when Jain was sentenced to three years in jail for plotting Bhandarkar’s murder.
Ending suspense over the conspiracy behind abduction and sexual assault of a female actor in February last, the Special Investigation Team on Monday arrested prominent Malayalam actor Dileep on the basis of new evidence which revealed his doling out “quotation” to key accused Pulsar Suni following a fallout with the actress over family-related issues.
The cops also took into custody his close aide and actor director Nadirshah after subjecting him to a detailed interrogation at a secret location for over 10 hours, the second time in a week. Finally, his arrest was recorded at the Aluva Police Club by 6.45 pm.
The arrest was made after the cops succeeded in digging out clinching evidence including the place where the conspiracy was hatched, a hotel in MG Road. The police also found he had known Suni for years and the latter was present at many of his film shooting venues. Earlier, the actor denied knowing the key accused which made the cops suspicious and indulge in the lengthy process of questioning every one connected with the actor in the last over a week.
The probe revealed that Dileep had a fall out with the actress back in 2013 and it was in the second attempt the gang led by Suni succeeded in carrying out the attack in a moving car on the night of February 17.