HYDERABAD: Cyberabad police on Thursday arrested award-winning choreographer Jani Master, alias Shaik Jani Basha, for allegedly raping his assistant choreographer.
Jani was arrested from a hotel in Goa. After medical checkup, he will be produced before a local court for a transit warrant.
“As per the procedure, he will be brought to Cyberabad on a transit warrant and will be produced before the competent court here,” Cyberabad Police Commissioner Avinash Mohanty told TOI
Police had earlier booked Jani for raping the woman on multiple occasions and harassing her repeatedly by putting her under fear.
Later, police added the PoCSO Act to the case since the woman, who is now 21, was first raped by him in 2019, when she was still a minor.
The woman alleged that after seeing her in a reality show on television, Jani offered her a role as his assistant in 2019 and since then assaulted her sexually and physically.
She also alleged that Jani’s wife also harassed her.