Wrestler-actor Gurjar held after plaint of sexual exploitation | Hyderabad News

Hyderabad: Wrestler-cum-actor Saurav Gurjar was arrested by Gachibowli police at Mumbai airport for allegedly sexually exploiting a 29-year-old woman on the promise of marriage. He was sent to 14-day judicial remand on Sunday.According to police, the 29-year-old complainant from Nanakramguda alleged that she first connected with Gurjar (40) on Instagram in 2021. They became intimate after their first meeting on Dec 25, 2021, she claimed.“During the course of our relationship, the accused disclosed that he was already married. He repeatedly promised to give me wife-like rights and eventually settle down with me,” the woman stated in her complaint.She alleged that during their five-year relationship, while she stayed with Gurjar at different places in the US and India, he frequently avoided her and even went incommunicado.“He used to block me on the phone/social media and disappear without any prior information. I suffered mental harassment, emotional distress and financial loss, including losing my job after I left my employment in the US to stay with him,” the complainant alleged.According to the woman, Gurjar later helped her relocate to Hyderabad.“She claimed to have relocated with the expectation that they would settle together. But the accused again failed to honour his assurances. He allegedly continued the relationship by making false promises of marriage and subjected her to harassment and sexually exploited her,” Gachibowli police stated in the FIR.Based on the complaint, Gachibowli police registered a case against Gurjar on Aug 15 under Section 69 of the BNS (sexual intercourse by employing deceitful means, etc.).“We also issued a Look Out Circular (LOC) against him. On the night of Sept 17, he was intercepted by immigration officials at Mumbai airport when he arrived from West Asia. Our team brought him to Hyderabad on Saturday and was produced before a magistrate, who remanded him to judicial custody on Sunday,” Gachibowli inspector K Saidulu said.