Hyderabad city police Tuesday arrested the famous singer Ghazal Srinivas on charges of sexually harassing a woman. Assistant Commissioner of Police, Panjagutta Division Vijay Kumar told the media that he was taken into custody on Tuesday after investigation into a complaint filed by a woman Radio Jockey last week.
After taking him into custody on Tuesday morning, the police produced him in the Nampally court which remanded him to judicial custody till January 12. He was later shifted to Chanchalguda Central Jail. The court rejected the bail petition of Srinivas. The police moved a petition for his custody for questioning and it will come up for hearing later.
“We found substantial evidence that the woman was harassed by the singer”, he said. The police investigations revealed that there was a truth in allegation that he had summoned the lady to his room and behaved in an uncivilised manner the ACP said.
The police said that the lady provided them the video clips of the incident which took place in the office of a web radio in the city.
The woman, whose identity was being kept secret by the police had lodged complaint on December 29 alleging that the accused was stalking and harassing her and forced her to give him a body massage. She told the police that the accused was harassing her for the last two months and when the things became unbearable she approached the police.
However Ghazal Srinivas denied the allegations. “I don’t know why this lady is targeting me and leveling this sort of allegations against me”, he said. “I have always saw the girl as my daughter and I respect her very much”, he said.
Denying any body message he said that he had suffered an injury and despite his refusal she had applied medicine to his head.
Meanwhile on the complaint of the lady, the police also booked a case against another woman, an attender at the office of the Web Radio for allegedly helping Ghazal Srinivas.