Actress & reality-show contestant Payal Rohatgi was arrested on June 24 for threatening a society’s residents and further for telling kids that she’ll break their legs. The Bigg Boss Season 2 contestant on June 25 took to Instagram and shared a cryptic message.
This is not the first time Rohatgi has stirred controversy and has suffered the consequences of her actions. In the past she has been subjected to multiple FIRs, a permanent ban from Twitter and outcry by netizens about her insensitive remarks.
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On June 24, an FIR was registered against model & actress Payal Rohatgi leading to her imminent arrest on June 25, Friday. The FIR was registered by the chairperson of a residence society, Dr. Parag Shah. According to Satellite Police Station’s A.S. Roy, Payal allegedly harassed her society members that reside in the Satellite area-based society, Ahmedabad.
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“Will break their legs”: Rohatgi threatens children
As per the police, Rohatgi does not have her own apartment in the society and lives with her parents for the past one year. According to the chairperson, Rohatgi is known for harassing society members and she also once threatened the children of the society that she will ‘break their legs’, if they played in the society’s common area.
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Abusing society members at annual meeting
The most recent escalation came on June 20 when Rohatgi attended the society’s annual general meeting along with her parents. According to the FIR lodged by the complainant, at the society’s meeting, she verbally harassed and abused society residents and went on to post an abusive message on the society’s WhatsApp group. Further, she also terrorized the society residents by alleging that she will get them arrested in false criminal charges.
The 36-year-old actress was charged under IPC Sections 294-B, 504 & 506. While 294-B pertains to uttering obscene words, 504 pertains to intentional insult and 506 pertains to criminal intimidation.
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Cryptic update from Rohatgi’s Instagram page
On her day of arrest, Rohatgi’s Instagram page had another cryptic update. The account is managed by Rohatgi herself and her team. In the recent update, Rohatgi’s palm can be seen holding a flower in front of a Shiva-Linga and in the caption, she wrote – “I know I am being used to fulfil an agenda by certain people who themselves don’t want to do the dirty work, but I am going with the flow even though I know I am being trapped as God has a plan for me which none of these powerful people can even touch. Om Namah Shivay”
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Payal Rohatgi’s Long Relationship with Controvorsies
It should be noted that this is not the first time the actress has been part of the news for all the wrong reasons. In fact, Rohatgi has been known for her explosive and insensitive comments by netizens and Bollywood followers.
In 2019, Rohatgi was locked from Twitter for a brief period for communalising the Hyderabad gang-rape case. A year before that, when Kerala was dealing with the 2018 floods, Rohatgi took to Twitter to claim that the floods were God’s wrath due to slaughter of cows.
Rohatgi also met a lot of flak for dehumanizing social reformer Raja Ram Mohan Roy, who’s credited to have played a major role in the abolishment of Sati. According to Rohatgi, Roy was a traitor and Roy defamed the act of Sati.
The Nach-Baliye contestant was arrested in 2019 for posting objectionable content against the Nehru-Gandhi family. Rohatgi claimed that India’s first PM Jawaharlal Nehru was not the legitimate son of his father Motilal Nehru.
After her consistent objectionable remarks, she was banned from Twitter permanently.
