Jaya Prada gets 6 month jail term for failing to payESI) funds to workers employed at her cinema theatre in Chennai
Jaya Prada gets 6 month jail term for failing to payESI) funds to workers employed at her cinema theatre in Chennai
A bizzare news comes to the fore of Veteran South and Bollywood actress and former
MP Jaya Prada sentenced to six months jail by the Egmore metropolitan magistrate court in an old case.
Reportedly, the order was issued in response to allegations of the actress failing ailing to pay the Employees State Insurance (ESI) funds for the workers employed at the cinema theatre owned by her in Chennai.
The actress was imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 in connection to the case. Reports reveal that her business partners Ram Kumar and Raja Babu are also found guilty.
Sources reveal that the theatre owned by Jaya got shut down and later the theatre workers lodged a complaint against her for non-payment of the ESI funds to the workers deducted from their salaries. According to worker’s allegations, the ESI money was not paid to the Government Insurance Corporation.
Later, the Labour Government Insurance Corporation filed a case against Jaya Prada and her partners at the Egmore Magistrate Court in Chennai. It is learnt that she confessed to the charges levelled against her and ensured to clear the payment of the workers and also sought dismissal of the case.
However, the court refused her appeal and imposed a fine and imprisonment for six months.
Jaya was a popular actress of her time. She quit acting to embrace politics and joined the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in 1994. She became a Rajya Sabha MP and then a Lok Sabha MP. In 2019, she joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
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