A molestation case has been registered against Vibhu Agrawal, the CEO of film production company Ullu Digital Private Limited after a complaint was lodged by an employee from his organisation.
According to reports, the Mumbai Police confirmed registering an FIR against Agarwal after the 28-year-old woman accused him of sexual harassment in the storeroom of Ullu Digital Pvt Ltd's Andheri office.
Senior Inspector of Mumbai Police, Someshwar Kamthe of Amboli police station, mentioned that the woman was harassed on June 18 by the CEO of Ullu App.
Anjali Raina, the company's country head has also been booked, Mumbai Police informed.
However, in an official statement released by the OTT platform revealed that ULLU had made a complaint with Cyber Cell, Lucknow Police on June 10, 2021, against unknown persons for cheating and extortion of money running into lakhs of rupees, wherein internal investigation into IP addresses also revealed the involvement of ULLU’s former Legal head, a woman, and her accomplices.
The said complaint was converted to FIR no. 0021 of 2021 under Section 384, 420 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 66 of the Information Technology Act 2008 and investigation is pending.
In this regard, when Lucknow police were looking out for the Legal Advisor, she and her accomplice had contacted ULLU administration and tendered an unconditional written apology, confession and resignation to ULLU on June 18, 21, in the presence of police officials from Lucknow and Mumbai police.
ULLU had informed Lucknow police about the receipt of such apology from the Legal Head and her accomplice, and in view of the fact that she has apologised and unilaterally offered to make good the loss/harm caused to ULLU by her criminal acts, ULLU had requested Lucknow police to not take immediate action of arresting her.
A notice was served to the Legal Advisor and her accomplice on the same day under section 41-A Cr P.C by the cyber-crime police station in relation to the aforesaid case and they were asked to appear on July 5, 2021.
ULLU’s former Legal Advisor had then filed a petition for quashing the criminal case, i.e. FIR no. 0021 against her before Hon’ble High Court of Lucknow at Allahabad, wherein she made such false and baseless allegations. Her quashing petition was dismissed by Hon’ble Allahabad High Court on July 23 and until then no complaint whatsoever was filed by the said Legal Advisor.
As a counterblast and as an afterthought, after a lapse of more than 17 days and as a sheer abuse of laws in favour of women, on July 5, 2021 (that is the date when she was asked to appear before Lucknow Cyber Cell), ULLU’s former Legal Advisor has filed a false and frivolous complaint with Mumbai police accusing the ULLU’s country head Anjali Raina and CEO Vibhu Agarwal for molestation and harassment, and she did not pursue the said complaint until July 30, 2021.
The CEO and team of ULLU have been cooperating with the Mumbai (Amboli) police since July 31, 2021 and have presented their evidence gathered against ULLU’s former Legal Advisor over the last two years for duping the company of lakhs of rupees. Team ULLU has full faith in Mumbai Police and Indian Judiciary and thus refraining from giving detailed explanations at this stage.
Meanwhile, recently the victim had told a web portal “Hello Mumbai News” that Vibhu Agrawal framed her in a false extortion case in Lucknow. He even had also put pressure on her not to speak a word about him and his Company.
Reportedly, Vibhu Agarwal had forced her to undress in the storeroom of his production company and even threatened her of dire consequences and that he will defame her family.
Agrawal has been booked under Section 354 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) in Mumbai.
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