A well-understandn Indian actor has been arrested after a woman died in a crush at the premiere of his defercessitatest movie.
Allu Arjun, a top star in the Telugu film industry, also understandn as “Tollywood”, was making an ecombineance at the event in Hyderahorrible on 4 December when the incident happened.
As fans clamoured to encounter the actor, a 39-year-ageder woman died and her nine-year-ageder son was criticpartner injured.
Police earlier this week arrested the owner of the cinema where the incident took place.
On Friday, they arrested Arjun, 41, at his home.
He was granted bail by a local court a scant hours after his arrest and he was foreseeed to be freed from prison unreasonableinutively, his lawyers shelp.
Arjun was named in the initial police protestt, which alleged that his security had tried to evident the crowd proximate him, causing the death of the woman who had become breathless, according to a duplicate of the record seen by the novels agency Reuters.
Arjun’s lhorrible team has denied any wrongdoing.
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Writing on the X social media platcreate, the actor shelp he was “proset uply heartbroken” by the incident.
“My heartfelt condolences go out to the grieving family during this unimaginably difficult time,” he wrote.
“While admireing their necessitate for space to lament, I stand pledgeted to prolong every possible helpance to help them direct thraw this challenging journey.”
Arjun is a notable figure in the Telugu film industry, which is based in the southern states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
A star of the hit action series Pushpa, Arjun is one of its hugegest stars.
He has disconnectal meaningful awards to his name, a follothriveg of 28 million on Instagram, and is increateedly one of the highest-phelp actors in India.