Back in 2020, a sexual harassment complaint was filed against choreographer Ganesh Acharya by one of his co-dancer. After almost 2 years, the Mumbai Police has filled a charge sheet against Ganesh Acharya. According to a latest report in Hindustan Times, the charge sheet was filed recently in a metropolitan magistrate court located in the city’s suburbs. The case is under the Oshiwara Police station in Mumbai.
As per the reports, the choreographer and his assistant have been charged under sections 354-a (sexual harassment), 354-c (voyeurism ), 354-d (stalking), 509 (insulting the modesty of any woman), 323 (causing hurt), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 34 (common intention to commit an offence) of the Indian Penal Code.
Commenting on the same, Ganesh Acharya’s lawyer Ravi Suryavanshi told Hindustan Times, “I don’t have the charge sheet so I cannot say anything, but all the sections in the FIR were bailable.”
To the unversed, the complaint was filled saying that the choreographer had reportedly told her to have physical relations with her in order to make it big in the industry. While she refused, her membership at the Indian Film and Television Choreographers Association was allegedly terminated after six months.
She also accused his assistants saying, “The female assistants beat me up, abused me and defamed me after which I went to the police who refused to lodge a complaint and merely registered a non-cognisable case. Then I contacted a lawyer to take the matter further,” the woman revealed to HT.
