Dancer sent to 14 days' judicial custody for molestation

National Award winning dancer Guru Syed Sallauddin Pasha, arrested for allegedly molesting a woman who teaches at his wife's centre, was today sent to 14 days' judicial custody by a Delhi court.
Metropolitan Magistrate Muneesh Garg sent Pasha to Tihar Jail till May 26.
Pasha was arrested last evening from his house in Madhu Vihar area in East Delhi.
The choreographer's wife, who is herself a renowned Kathak dancer, has also filed a separate complaint of domestic violence, attempt to murder and abetment to suicide against her husband.
Although both these cases have been registered at Madhu Vihar police station, Pasha has been arrested only for alleged molestation and wrongful restraint on the basis of the complaint filed by the woman.

The woman, who is separated from her husband, has claimed that she had accompanied Pasha to meet a sponsor in Daryaganj area some days ago and on their way back, he molested her in the car.

"She also claimed that Pasha has been sexually abusing some of his female students," a police official said.
She had informed Pasha's wife about it soon after the incident and then approached the police.
Pasha has won a National Award for empowering persons with disabilities and holds the Guinness Book Record for creating 100 dance theatre productions and 10,000 performance by persons with disabilities across the world.