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Jani Master was booked under POCSO after a 21-year-old woman filed a complaint against the choreographer for sexual harassment, rape and multiple threats on several occasions
Choreographer Jani Master (Photo credit: tv9telugu)
Hyderabad: A special POCSO court in Rangareddy district has allowed the police to take choreographer Sheikha Jani Basha, also known as Jani Master, into its custody for four days.
Narsingi Police will question him till September 28 on charges of sexually assaulting a young female colleague. Currently, Jani master is lodged in Chanchalguda jail.
Following the permission of the court, the police went to Chanchalguda Jail to take him into custody.
He was booked under relevant sections of BNS and POCSO Act after the victim, who was a minor at the time of the assault, filed a complaint against him.
Booked under POCSO Act:
He was booked under POCSO after a 21-year-old woman filed a complaint against the choreographer for sexual harassment, rape and multiple threats on several occasions. Raidurgam police registered a zero FIR and later transferred the case to Narsingi police station.
In her complaint, the woman said that he would harass her on outdoor film shoots in various cities including Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai. Based on the complaint, the police registered a case against him under the sections of the IPC 376,506, 323 (2) for rape, criminal intimidation, voluntarily causing hurt.
Who is Sheikh Jani Basha?
He choreographed songs for films like ‘Stree 2’, Jailer, Thiru, Double iSmart among others. Recently, he bagged a national award for Best Choreographer for the song ‘Megham Karigenu’ from Tamil dub ‘Thiru’ starring Dhanush, Nithya Menon, Raashi Khanna.
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