Actress
Bhanupriya
has
courted
controversy
after
the
Chennai
police
registered
a
case
against
her
and
brother
Gopalakrishna
for
engaging
a
minor
girl
as
domestic
help
and
harassing
her.
It
is
learnt
that
an
FIR
was
registered
following
a
post
from
the
Superintendent
of
Police,
East
Godavari,
Kakinada,
Andhra
Pradesh,
transferring
it
from
the
Samalkot
police
station.
The
actor
was
booked
under
Sections
323
(Punishment
for
voluntarily
causing
hurt),
506
(Punishment
for
criminal
intimidation),
341
(Punishment
for
wrongful
restraint)
and
34
(Acts
done
by
several
persons
in
furtherance
of
common
intention)
of
the
IPC
and
Juvenile
Justice
Act
Sections
75
(Punishment
for
cruelty
to
the
child)
and
79
(Keeping
a
child
under
bondage
for
employment).
R
Penupagala
Prabhavathi
of
Andhra
Pradesh,
approached
the
cops
saying
that
she
engaged
her
14-year-old
daughter
for
doing
domestic
work
in
Bhanupriya's
house
for
about
18
months.
Since
then,
the
actor
had
not
paid
her
daughter's
salary
and
refused
to
send
her
back
home,
alleged
the
girl's
mother.
The
girl
also
alleged
that
the
actor's
brother
had
mentally
and
sexually
harassed
her.
Bhanupriya,
sometime
back,
had
also
filed
a
counter-complaint
saying
that
the
girl
had
stolen
valuables
from
her
home,
which
was
later
found
out
to
be
true.
Both
mother-daughter
duo
was
subsequently
arrested
and
spent
some
time
in
prison.
Bhanupriya,
on
her
part,
had
stated
that
she
was
unaware
of
the
girl's
age
when
she
employed
her.
Further
updates
on
this
case
are
awaited.
Bhanupriya,
meanwhile,
sporadically
acts
in
movies.
She
was
last
seen
in
Magalir
Mattum
and
Kadaikutty
Singam,
both
of
which
performed
well
at
the
box
office.