Telugu choreographer Jani Master, accused of sexually assaulting a woman ex-employee, has confessed to the crime, police said.
The victim who was 16 at the time when crime took place was sexually abused multiple times, states police report.
The 21-year-old woman who met Master at an event in 2017 said two years later he offered her a job as an assistant choreographer, which she accepted.
The alleged sexual assault took place after that — at a hotel Master and she, and other dancers, were staying in during a Mumbai show.
On Thursday, Master — suspended by the Telugu Film Chamber of Commerce and a workers’ union — was taken into custody in Bengaluru.
The choreographer has worked on films like Baahubali and Pushpa: The Rise.
On Tuesday, actor Jhansi, the Chairperson of the Chamber’s panel to probe sexual harassment claims told the media the allegations against Master — rape and criminal intimidation — will attract charges under the stringent POCSO, or Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.
Jani Master is also a member of actor-politician Pawan Kalyan’s Jana Sena, which is allied with the Telugu Desam Party of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu.
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