Yogesh K Porwar & Siddarath Sethia
The Jnanabharathi police have registered an FIR against Kannada film industry junior artiste for cheating a 27-year-old woman and later blackmailed her to extort money on the pretext of getting a role in the movies .
The accused Santosh had met the victim from Raichur online in 2019.
The accused was doing small roles in the Kannada movies but introduced himself as Hero of many kannada movies and assured to get her lead roles in the upcoming projects.Trusting him the victim started to interact and met him couple of times .
The duo visited Mysuru and Goa where the accused had sexually assaulted her and even recorded their private movements.
Using the private videos the accused started blackmailing her demanding money and sexually favours many times.
Unable to bear harassment,the victim approached the police and filed a complaint with Attibele station earlier but no action was taken.
The victim came to know about the accused background and when confronted recently,the accused allegedly assaulted her and threatened her with dire consequences.
Based on the complaint the police have registered a case of outraging the modesty,assault,cheating and criminal intimidation against the accused for further investigation.
