Rape has been registered against Bollywood producer Bhushan Kumar after he was accused of allegedly raping a 30-year-old woman. According to reports, the victim was abused on the pretext of getting work in the producer's company. Although no arrest has been made, a probe is currently in progress." Case registered u/s 376 IPC against Bhushan Kumar, managing director, T-Series, at DN Nagar Police station on allegations of rape with a 30-year-old woman on the pretext of engaging her for a project at the company. Probe underway, no arrests made till now," a Police source confirmed in a report on ANI. The Mumbai Police is now expected to question and record the statement of Bhushan Kumar, who is yet to respond to the allegations.
For the unversed, in 2018, during the #MeToo movement that had taken Bollywood by storm, Kumar was accused of sexual harassment by an anonymous Twitter user. In the tweet, a woman, an actress claimed that she was dropped from the film because she "refused to sleep with the 'boss'." Bhushan Kumar took control of the music company T-Series in 1997 when he was 19 after the murder of his father, Gulshan. He went on to become the chairman and managing director of this number one music company in India. As managing director, Kumar diversified the company's business into electronics, CDs, audio/video tapes and cassettes and film production. For this and for popularising Indian music overseas, he was honoured by the Government of India's Electronics and Software Export Promotion Council.