‘Oo Antava’ Choreographer Charged With Sexual Harassment

Choreographer Ganesh Acharya, from Chennai, is popular in all film industries. Ganesh often choreographs songs for Allu Arjun in Telugu and recently he worked on Oo Antava from Pushpa. The choreographer, after being accused of sexual harassment, stalking and voyeurism, the Mumbai Police have now filed a charge sheet against him in a 2020 case registered by a co-dancer.

Reportedly, the charge sheet was filed this week in a metropolitan magistrate court located in the city’s suburbs. The case is under the Oshiwara Police station in Mumbai. Report says Ganesh Acharya 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.

Meanwhile, Ganesh refused to comment on the latest development, but his lawyer Ravi Suryavanshi said that all the sections in the FIR were bailable. In her complaint to the police, the dancer revealed that she had reportedly turned down the sexual advances of the choreographer. She also accused Ganesh Acharya of molesting her, passing lewd comments and even showing her pornographic content.

She told officials that Ganesh Acharya had reportedly told her to have physical relations in order to succeed in the industry. The woman has also accused Acharya’s assistants of beating her up. “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.