Jun

15

Shock and dismay in Bollywood over actor’s rape scandal

June 15, 2009 posted by indiatime |

Shiney Ahuja, an upcoming and award-winning Bollywood actor celebrity, is under arrest and in police custody, accused by his own maid that he forcibly gagged and raped her this Sunday afternoon. The actor’s wife and baby daughter were not home when the incident is said to have occurred. There are some reports of Ahuja already having confessed to the crime, but that is bound to change once his legal team gets fully involved in the process.

The maid is said to be 18 years of age, a fact favorable to the accused in such a case. It is routine for Indian households to employ domestic maids who are minors, but the age factor of the maid hasn’t made the headlines yet. So it is not unlikely that the police have already given Mr. Ahuja that much of a break.

Although Bollywood fraternity is expressing dismay and shock, it is expected that it will eventually back Mr. Ahuja up all the way, depending on the money at stake. In yester-years, most Bollywood actors would only be caught with tax evasion at most. Recently however, Bollywood actors have been accused or convicted of much more, including vehicular homicides, poaching and eating endangered animals, aiding and abetting terrorists, abusing and extorting young movie aspirants for sex, and now, rape.

For all appearances, Mr. Ahuja is now in custody and justice may appear to have been served, his detainment is temporary at best, since he is only presumed to be guilty, not proven to be a rapist. Here’s the deal. With all those recent crimes by Bollywood actors, one would think at least some of them may still be in prison. Actually, not a single one of them is. Not even the convicted ones. In fact, the convicted ones are even bigger celebrities than before, either from new television shows, new films, political endeavors, or merely by extra public adulation on account of being bad boys or girls.

The police and the judiciary and the politicians have learnt a trick or two about the Indian public. So whenever a public backlash is expected or predicted, the ‘authorities’ pretends to do the right thing. And knowing that the public memory is way too short, the accused are soon released, citing legal inabilities or procedural obligations. Soon thereafter, the victims are offered large sums of money they have never seen before, turning them into hostile witnesses, compromising any potential prosecution. All this happens with the consent of the police, the judges, the politicians and in most cases, the helpless victims as well.

For now, Bollywood is acting shocked and dismayed. I hope they make bad acting a crime one of these days.


Comments

Name (required)

Email (required)

Website

Speak your mind

4 Comments so far

  1. Light on June 15, 2009 10:21 pm

    Bhooliwood ki bhul bhuleiya,
    and we constantly honour these wretched characters on planet.

  2. Vinoy on June 16, 2009 7:12 am

    And his wife proclaimed-’He is innocent,he is a man of charecter’.And that after the debauch confessed his crime!A woman of charecter!It has now been reported that every film actress with whom he has worked in a fim has refused to act opposite him again!A sex-maniac!

  3. juliet on July 17, 2009 5:12 pm

    I am glad the actreses have vowed never to work again. i think his right place is in jail. My heart goes out to his parents who are in good position but they should have taught him to respect from the begining this would not have happened. Many of the bollywood say he has never done this earlier why should he do it to them he has to show he is a good boy it is only the poor and vulnerable maid who was easy prey + he did not in his wildest dreams thought she would not be scared of his ‘dhamkis’ and report against him should be shaved, blackened his face, made him to sit on the donkey apologise to the maid and put into a solitary confinement. I am surpirsed at the stupid way his wife is defending him hats off to her ‘pati bhakti’.

  4. yaghjv on November 7, 2009 2:21 am

    P4wFxC bowulwcionji, [url=http://boxiyliggsxf.com/]boxiyliggsxf[/url], [link=http://wsgetxggmwrz.com/]wsgetxggmwrz[/link], http://thfwpzjbsajx.com/

Search

 




Most commented

Mumbai's communal overtones signal upcoming elections (475)
Why did Kolkata police murder Rizwanur Rahman? (329)
Ten reasons why India is doing better than Pakistan 60 years after independence (317)
Bun roller millionnaire saves Indicted Swami's buns by posting $10 bond (93)
Top 10 reasons India sucks at the Olympics (64)
Auntie, Corruption bureau and Crime branch (48)
Shah Rukh Khan detained at immigration checkpoint in US (44)
Ishmeet Singh (1989-2008) (39)
And my vote for a modern day wonder goes to.....India! (37)
Convicted Czech scientist flees India (36)


Most visited

Hollywood’s first Indian star
Meeting Raj Kapoor at the barbershop
Madhubala on a postal stamp
Why I’m happier than Mukesh Ambani
An inconvenient truth about India’s intellectual property
UFOs may be ‘idlis’ but time travels only in ‘medu-wadas’
Dr Singh is no Dr King
Lesser Known Indians
The Most ‘Nobel’ Teacher of Them All
The third Indian revered in China
A little Poland in India
The vanishing of Indian languages
The looting of Chandigarh’s treasures
Bharat, Pakistan and Hindustan, Indiana
Welcome to India, Steve!
Top 5 explanations for the president’s gesture
An IIT on every street, an IIM on every block
Pakistan, Jinnah, Wadias and the American anthem
An IAS officer’s nightmare of lustful, lascivious stares comes true