Mumbai: Controversial Bollywood actor Aditya Pancholi is once again in news for all the wrong reasons. The 50-year-old actor was arrested by Mumbai police following a brawl at a posh nightclub on Sunday. However he was later released on bail. Pancholi allegedly smashed the head of bouncer Mandar Patole (29) with his mobile handset while he was being escorted out after he created ruckus and damaged the counter at the pub in the wee hours today.
According to police, the actor along with a friend reached the Trilogy pub in Hotel Sea Princess on Juhu Tara Road late last night. "At about 12.45 AM today, an allegedly inebriated Pancholi requested the disc jockey (DJ) to play Hindi songs as, according to him, only English numbers were being played in the pub. When the DJ turned down his request, Pancholi had a tiff with him," Santacruz police station's senior inspector Padmakar Chavan told PTI.
The actor even damaged the club counter, police sources said. When the bouncers intervened and asked him to leave the place, the actor unleashed a torrent of abuse and began roughing them up. When Patole tried to escort out Pancholi for creating ruckus, the actor lost his cool and banged his mobile handset on the bouncer's head, injuring him. Subsequently, police were informed and Pancholi was arrested. Patole was rushed to a nearby civic-run Bhabha hospital where he had five stitches on the head.
Pancholi was taken to the police station and placed under arrest in the wee hours today under IPC sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 324 (voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace).
(With agency inputs)
