Mumbai: Bollywood choreographer Ganesh Acharya was granted bail by a Mumbai magistrate court on a sexual harassment case, PTI reported.
In February 2020, a case was registered against him at suburban Amboli police station for the alleged beating of an assistant choreographer.
The complaint against him, along with two others, alleged that they assaulted the complainant at a function in Andheri on January 26, 2020.
Among other things, the woman claimed that Acharya had forced her to watch pornographic videos whenever she went to meet him at his office in 2009-10 and further alleged that he had victimized other women as well.
A case under sections 354-A (sexual harassment), 354-C (watching or capturing the image of a woman engaging in a private act), 354-D (stalking), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) of the IPC has been registered against the choreographer, who has denied all the allegations.