An actor and assistant director from the Marathi film and television industry was arrested for molesting a 17-year-old girl. He allegedly forced her to wear a bikini and molested her on the pretext of a photoshoot a month back. The girl was so traumatised that she only told her mother about it recently. The girl, her mother and advocates Chinmay Bhosale and Dhanashree Pawar, lodged an FIR with the Deccan Gymkhana police against Mandar Sanjay Kulkarni, 34, a resident of Shaniwar Peth.

He was charged under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code, under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO), and the Information Technology Act.