Mysuru: “I have been raped by Rajesh repeatedly and actors Mandya Ramesh and Sadhu Kokila have sexually harassed me in the name of getting their bodies massaged. I have seen these actors on screen and I was shocked when they asked me to massage their private parts,” said the victim who was rescued from the spa.

She hails from Pandavapura taluk in Mandya district and has been separated from her husband. “My father died and my mother deserted me. I was married to a man in Bengaluru and he was a drunkard. He too left me within a year of marriage and I was forced to come back to my village to stay at my grandmother’s place,” she stated.

Narrating her ordeal, the girl said that her grandmother died too and she started working at a bangle shop for a living. Some of her relatives told her that they would get her a job in Mysuru as a domestic help.

The girl then came in contact with Bharathi alias Indira who is known as ‘Jinke Mari’ and the latter had told her that she would look good in a T-shirt and a jeans pant.

“She promised that she would get me a job in a beauty parlour and asked me to come to ‘Like Trend Family Saloon’ in Bogadi. Only after I came here, I realised that it was a massage parlour. I was trained for the massage and was asked by owner Rajesh to massage his clients to their expectations,” she narrated.

“Rajesh ordered me to massage naked bodies and I was forced to touch their private parts. When I resisted, the clients used to complain to Rajesh who used to threaten me. I kept quiet for a long time as I needed the job for survival,” she narrated.

“I was not given any money, but was forced to work there and I had to offer body massage on Saturdays and Sundays and later I was also forced into sexual activities. Rajesh had even kept me under house arrest and was raped many times. Along with Mandya Ramesh and Sadhu Kokila, many Police Officers used to come from Bengaluru for body massages and used to sexually harass me,” she stated.