Court grants four-day police custody to Tara Chowdhary

The Third Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court at Nampally on Saturday remanded actress Tara Chowdhary and her live-in partner Ratineni Durga Prasad, who were arrested on the charges of running a prostitution racket, to police custody from April 8 to 11. 

While issuing the orders, the court directed the Banjara Hills police to produce both of them with complete medical reports in the court on April 12. Earlier, the Banjara Hills police have sought seven days custody for further investigations. However, the court gave only four days police custody.

The Banjara Hills police claimed that Tara Chowdhary was forcing younger girls into prostitution. She is also understood to have been using her picture with former Chief Minister late YS Rajasekhara Reddy to commit the offences, the police in their report said.  Additional Public Prosecutor Lakshman Rao told the court that the accused had resorted to blackmail her victims and customers for her benefit.

However, Tara Chowdhary's counsel K Srinivas said that his client was being falsely implicated in the case. He said a large sum of money was given to one Chinni Krishna sometime ago. As he did not return the money, she lodged a complaint against him with the Banjara Hills Police. However, the police officials asked her to compromise with Chinna Krishna and when she refused, she was implicated in the case, he alleged.

The actress was arrested based on a complaint filed by a 20 year old sales woman Srilakshmi from Visakhapatnam who claimed that she was forced into prostitution by Tara on the pretext of giving her a job.