On Tuesday, a young Telugu actress has filed a police complaint alleging she was sexually assaulted by a film director and hero. Acting on her complaint, the director has been detained and the hunt is on for the escaped hero.
In her statement given to police, the actress (her identity is being kept private) informed that she was signed as the heroine of a new Telugu film, and that on Tuesday, film’s director Chalapathi and hero Srujan asked her to accompany them to Bhimavaram where the shoot was planned.
‘Although I wanted to travel by train, the duo convinced me to travel from Hyderabad to Bhimavaram in a car. On the way, they started touching me inappropriately, and when I resisted, they hit me. They threw me in the backseat and tried to rape me. During the scuffle, our car collided with a lorry, and that’s how I escaped from their clutches,’ she narrated the horrific incident.
She added that both the actor and the director apologized to her later for sexually assaulting her and asked her not to inform to police. “They even threatened me that I won’t ever get any film if I talk about this incident to media or police,’ she further said.
Director Chalapathi has been taken into custody on the charges of allegedly trying to rape the actress, and actor Srujan is on the run.
