Mumbai:
A South Indian actress and model has accused her agent of molesting and deluding her with the promise that he would get her on the popular reality show Bigg Boss.
Ritu Sachdeva, a model who has acted in Kannada movies, filed a complaint with the Versova police station in the wee hours of Friday against her agent, Flynn Remedios, for allegedly cheating her of Rs 4 lakh.
According to Sachdeva's complaint, Remedios promised her roles on television shows and a chance to star in a music album in exchange for assignment fees.
"Remedios had said that he had many contacts in the film industry and could get me to enter the reality show Bigg Boss. I was convinced and gave him the money to get me the assignments he promised.
But recently, he took Rs 50,000 from me saying that his mother was unwell. When I asked him to return the money, he refused," Sachdeva said.
"After asking repeatedly for the money, he gave me a cheque. But it bounced and I decided to lodge a complaint against him," said Sachdeva.
The actress had approached the police a day after a cheque of Rs 50,000, which Remedios had made out to her, bounced.
The complaint also states that Remedios had molested her and asked her to 'compromise' with him. "I was harassed financially and mentally.
He has been messaging and calling me during nights for the past two months, asking me to have a relationship with him."
Flynn, on the other hand, admitted that he liked Sachdeva, but said he had never molested or duped her. "I haven't done anything of the sort. I do like her. I took Rs 3 lakh from her for the release of her album. But that amount was insufficient to release the album," he said, adding, "Upset that her album hasn't released, she is accusing me of these things."