Allu Arjun quizzed for 4 hours in Hydrabad stampede case
Hindustan TimesThe Hyderabad police on Tuesday questioned popular Telugu actor Allu Arjun for nearly four hours over his role in the Sandhya Theatre stampede, where a woman was killed and her nine-year-old son injured during the premiere of his film Pushpa 2: The Rule, said people familiar with the matter. Actor Allu Arjun arrives at the Chikkadpally police station for questioning as part of an ongoing probe into the stampede during the screening of ‘Pushpa-2’ in Hyderabad, on Tuesday. The incident has led to a war of wards between Arjun and Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy, with the latter accusing him of attending the screening despite police denying permission –– a charge rejected by the actor who called the incident “purely an accident”. Some of the questions Allu was asked included: Who told him that police had given permission for coming to Sandhya Theatre and conducting road show, whether he was aware of the woman’s death when was in the theatre, which agency the bouncers who had accompanied him belong to and how many bouncers he had hired, why the bouncers attacked fans and police personnel there and why he didn’t oblige to the police request to leave the theatre.