Singer Chinmayi Sripaada has opened up about actor Jagadeesh’s arrest, days after he was brought in for allegedly blackmailing an artiste leading to her death. Taking to X, she shared an article about his arrest.
Chinmayi wrote, "The Telugu Film Chamber is one of the first Film Bodies in the Country that has a Sexual Harassment Redressal Committee. Had the woman known her rights and that she had legal help, and that she didn’t have to be scared - she’d have felt safer.”
She also added, “Today another young woman is dead because a man felt it is easy to blackmail her. Because of how our society tells the honour of a woman is in her body. And you know how it is with the Indian Legal System. This case will take years. This man will be on bail even if convicted like Gurmeet Ram Rahim. This is all there is. The man in the white shirt is Jagadeesh.”
A news report quoted the police as saying that the actor was arrested for allegedly abetting the suicide of a woman junior artiste. He has been accused of threatening and blackmailing the 34-year-old woman after “taking her photo along with a man.” The woman reportedly took her life on November 29, and a case was filed.