Police charge Ganesh Acharya for sexual harassment

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Mumbai Police indicted the Bollywood choreographer Ganesh Acharya on sexual harassment, stalking and voyeurism charges, in a case filed by a female co-dancer in 2020.

According to media reports, a police officer said that the charge sheet was filed in a magistrate court; whereas, the case is under the jurisdiction of the Oshiwara Police station in Mumbai.

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The reports further stated that 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.

The Indian choreographer Ganesh Acharya denied to comment on sexual harassment, stalking and voyeurism charges. His lawyer Ravi Suryavanshi said, “I don’t have the charge sheet so I cannot say anything, but all the sections in the FIR were bailable.”

According to the complaint of the female co-dancer, Ganesh Acharya had sexually harassed her, passed lustful comments and even offered her to have physical relations with him to gain stardom in B Town.