The Jubilee Hills police have filed a case of criminal intimidation, cheating and trespassing against film producer turned politician Bandla Ganesh on Friday for allegedly threatening financer and producer Potluri V Prasad at the latter’s residence in Hyderabad.
Prasad alleged that on Friday evening, Ganesh’s aides came to his residence and tried to threaten him. Subsequently, Prasad approached the police and filed a complaint against Ganesh. Following this, police filed a case under sections 420 (cheating), 448 (house trespass) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC.
In response, Ganesh approached the Banjara Hills and filed a counter complaint alleging Prasad has been threatening to abduct him for the past 10 days. Seeking security from police, he said that Prasad should be held responsible if anything were to happen to him or his family members.
According to Prasad, Ganesh owes him Rs 7 crore. Ganesh had borrowed Rs 34 crore from Prasad to make Temper, which released in 2015. However, Ganesh claims that though he had paid the full amount, Prasad was demanding interest.
Prasad told a news channel in an interview, “Ganesh borrowed money from us in 2013 for the film, Temper. On the day of release of the film, he paid Rs 7 crore less to us. And for the past five years, he has been avoiding us.”
Speaking about the alleged threats by Ganesh, Prasad said, “Three people came to my house in the evening and said that they came to speak on behalf of Ganesh and tried to intimidate me.”
Prasad alleged that recently when he asked him for the money, Ganesh dropped names of ministers Botsa Satyanarayana and M Sucharita, and said, “You can’t win against me.”
Ganesh was booked for cheating earlier as well. The writer of Temper, Vakkantham Vamsi had filed a case against Ganesh for not paying his remuneration of Rs 26 lakhs. Ganesh had given him cheques which were dishonoured by the bank. Subsequently, Vamsi had approached Erramanzil Special Court. In the case, the court punished Ganesh with six months of rigorous imprisonment along with a fine of Rs 15,86,550 for failing to pay the full remuneration.