Kanteerava star Yamuna arrested on prostitution charges
News
oi-Sriram Hebbar
By By: Shekhar H Hooli
Just
a
day
before
the
release
of
her
Kannada
movie
Kanteerava,
popular
South
Indian
actress
Yamuna
has
created
big
headlines,
but
it
is
sad
that
she
is
in
news
for
all
wrong
reasons.
The
Kanteerava
star
has
been
arrested
by
the
Bangalore
police
for
her
alleged
involvement
in
a
prostitution
racket
in
the
ITC
Royal
Gardenia,
a
five
star
hotel,
situated
on
Vittal
Mallya
road
in
Bangalore.
According
to
police
sources,
actress
Yamuna
was
caught
red
handed
along
with
eight
other
members.
Police
sources
say,
"On
a
specific
information,
we
conducted
a
raid
on
room
no.
1402,
4th
floor
in
ITC
Royal
Gardenia
Hotel,
Bangalore.
During
the
raid,
we
have
recovered
Rs.
2
laks
from
actress
Yamuna
and
Rs
46,000
from
her
pimp
Surakshit
of
Puttur
in
Andhra
Pradesh.
Customer
Nandakumar,
the
owner
of
Transoft
Call
Centre
and
a
resident
of
Kasthuri
Nagar
in
Indira
Nagar,
has
been
arrested.
Nandakumar's
Toyota
Forturner
and
pimps'
Hundai
Electra
cars
have
also
been
seized."
The
Police
sources
added,
"The
room
no.
1402
was
booked
for
one
hour
for
Rs.
28,000,
while
an
amount
of
Rs.
2
lakhs
was
fixed
for
the
actress
for
an
hour.
However,
the
actress
and
the
customer
were
produced
before
1st
ACMM
judge
on
January
20
and
both
were
remanded
to
custody.
Yesterday,
they
got
released
on
bail.
Meanwhile,
pimp
Surakshit
was
also
produced
before
court
and
was
later
given
to
police
custody
till
28th
of
this
month."
However,
actress
Yamuna
has
acted
in
films
like
Mamagaru,
Mouna
Poratam
and
Erra
Mandaram.
She
debuted
in
Kannada
with
Shivaraj
Kumar's
movie
Modada
Mareyalli
in
1991.
She
has
starred
alongside
crazy
star
V
Ravichandran
in
Chinna
in
1994.
Later,
she
paired
again
with
Shivanna
in
Aasegobba
Meesegobba.
She
was
the
hot
symbol
in
South
Indian
film
industry
in
1990s.
Recently,
she
has
also
appeared
in
Shambo
Shiva
Shankar.
Her
latest
movie
in
Kannada
is
Duniya
Vijay's
Kanteerava,
which
has
been
released
yesterday
(21th
January).