Bhushan Kumar case: Mumbai Police lodge FIR against local politician and a female model for extortion

The media was buzzing on July 16 with allegations filed by a female model against film producer and T-Series Chairman Mr. Bhushan Kumar. T-Series had immediately issued a statement that these allegations and the FIR in D.N. Nagar police station is a conspiracy and is a result of failed attempt to extort money. It further said that the allegations are unsubstantiated with malicious intent to malign the reputation and image of T-Series and its Chairman.

It has now come to light that Mallikarjun Pujari, a local political leader of Thane district teamed up with a female model (who also did a cameo in a film) to extort money from the film producer and T-Series Chairman Bhushan Kumar. Mallikarjun Pujari had approached Bhushan Kumar in June 2021 and demanded extortion money and threatened that if the money is not paid to him then one girl will file false complaint against him for sexual harassment. Thereafter T-Series approached the Mumbai police and filed a written complaint against Mallikarjun Pujari in Amboli police station on 1st July 2021.

Around the same time, Mr Krishan Kumar of T-Series then spoke to Mallikarjun Pujari and Pujari asked Krishan Kumar to meet him in the hotel 'The Regenza by Tunga' at 1:00 PM on 5th July 2021. Mr Krishan Kumar met him in the same hotel on 5th July 2021 wherein Mallikarjun Pujari threatened him that one girl will file a police case against Mr Bhushan Kumar and showed some WhatsApp messages which were neither from the number of Mr Bhushan Kumar nor from any other member of T-Series team and demanded a huge sum of amount. Mr Krishan Kumar did not agree to this extortion and told Pujari in no uncertain terms that T-Series and Bhushan Kumar will never bow down to such fraudulent extortion demands and came back but could manage to record the conversation with Mallikarjun Pujari wherein he can be heard trying to extort money by giving the same reasoning.

Furthermore, Mallikarjun Pujari kept calling Mr. Krishan Kumar but Krishan Kumar didn’t give in to his demands for extortion. After realizing that his nefarious designs are not yielding any results Pujari then conspired with this girl and filed a complaint of rape charges against Mr Bhushan Kumar in D.N.Nagar police station of Andheri (W) on 15th July 2021.

A recent ETimes report quoted a police official commenting about the same and confirmed, “Complainant Kishan Kumar has stated that between July 3 and 10, one Mr Mallikarjun Pujari falsely accused his nephew Bhushan Kumar of raping a girl. The girl blackmailed the complainant by demanding money for not reporting the rape to the police and threatened defamation in the media as well. Furthermore, the girl’s friend has threatened to kill Bhushan Kumar which is why the complainant has lodged a complaint against Mallikarjun Pujari. An offense has been registered under Sections 386, 500, 506, 506 (2) of the IPC in Amboli Police Station, Mumbai.”