Hours after arrest, actor Allu Arjun gets interim bail in film premiere stampede case
Arjun, his team and the theatre management were booked after a woman died in the stampede at the premiere of his film ‘Pushpa 2’.
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The Telangana High Court on Friday granted actor Allu Arjun a four-week interim bail, hours after he was arrested by the Hyderabad Police in connection with the death of a woman in a stampede at the premiere of his film Pushpa 2 at Sandhya Theatre earlier this month, The Indian Express reported.
A trial court had remanded Arjun to 14-day judicial custody earlier in the day.
He had been taken into custody from his residence at around noon and was questioned by the police, The Hindu reported.
The police had on December 5 filed a case against Arjun, his security team and the management of the venue after the death of the 35-year-old woman. The stampede occurred on the evening of December 4.
The case was filed under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections pertaining to culpable homicide not amounting to murder and voluntarily causing hurt or grievous hurt.
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As per L Ramesh Kumar, ACP Chikkadpally, Allu Arjun has been arrested in connection with the case of the death of a woman at Sandhya theatre on December 4, during… pic.twitter.com/euOhYLeEUh— ANI (@ANI) December 13, 2024
Arjun had expressed condolences about the woman’s death and promised to donate Rs 25 lakh to her family as a goodwill gesture, according to The Hindu.
On December 11, he filed a petition in...
