A 38-year-old television actor, Sanil Sodhi was today arrested for
allegedly sending his nude photographs to a housewife in suburban
Andheri, police said.
Sodhi was held in the wee hours after he sent multiple vulgar pictures
of himself through his Blackberry messenger to the woman who approached
the police last evening and complained against him, they said.
The accused's father is a retired Indian Administrative Officer (IAS) of
Madhya Pradesh cadre. Sodhi and the woman had met at a prayer meeting
about four months ago, said Sharad
Borse, senior inspector of Versova police station.
"We have booked Sodhi under section 509 (word, gesture or act intended
to insult the modesty of a woman) of the IPC and Section 67 of the
Information Technology Act," the officer said.
Sodhi has been part of television series like Rishte (on Zee TV), Hum (on DD1), Pintoo and was also spotted in Bollywood movie Hu Tu Tu (starring Tabu and Suniel
Shetty) andHazaar Chaurasi Ki Ma (featuring Jaya Bachchan, Anupam Kher and Seema
Biswas).
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