"I was molested, pinched and abused": Model Krrishika Gupta recounts horror story

"I was exploited, pinched on the rear, molested and abused. While Neetu Chandra was provided with security, the organizers of the photo shoot left me to fend for myself. I had offered to get my own assistant along, but they told me that every thing would be provided for at the venue. I was told that it was a very artistic and classy shoot for a very prestigious magazine. When I reached the venue, I realized that these were all empty promises," Krishika said in an official statement released on Saturday in Mumbai by her publicist and manager Flynn Remidios.

"During the shoot (which tool place in a 5-star hotel at Juhu in suburban Mumbai), since we were shooting in bikinis in the open on Juhu beach and at a hotel adjoining the beach, some people tried to touch me and even tried to pull away the bath robe that I had put on over the bikini to cover myself. When I complained to the organizers no action was taken. The organizers were very busy ensuring that the shoot was completed as per their plans since a crowd had collected by then - and did not pay any heed to my complaint. I feel completely cheated by the organizers and will sue them for the indignity and insult endured by me. There was no proper security. Though the shoot was on the open beach, no police permission was taken nor was any police official present," the model and upcoming actress recounted.

However, Krrishika is thankful that the situation did not get out of hand. "They crowd could have done anything to me," she said, recounting with horror the story of two girls who were molested by an unruly crowd at Juhu on New Year's Eve. It was very irresponsible of the organizers and the magazine to shoot on an open beach with models in bikinis without proper security, she added.

According to Krrishika's manager and publicist Flynn Remedios, his client is contemplating filing a police complaint. "Some persons from the crowd tried to pull her bath robe and also tried to touch her improperly and paw her. One of them pinched her on the rear. They showered her with some of the choicest abuses in vernacular languages and made vulgar and abusive signs and gestures at her. Krrishika will file an official police complaint on Monday, after consulting her family and lawyers," Remedios said.

When asked why Krrishika had delayed in filing the police complaint, Remedios said she was uncertain about complaining about this earlier. "She didn't want to disturb or upset her family," he explained.