Actress-Politician Jayaprada Gets 6-Months Jail in Old Case

Chennai: A court in Chennai sentenced senior actress and politician Jaya Prada to six months in jail in an old case. A fine of Rs 5,000 was also imposed on her.

In this case, Jayaprada was accused of not paying the Employee State Insurance (ESI) money to workers of her theatre.

Jaya Prada and her brother Raj Babu were partners of Jayaprada Cine Theatre. The second metropolitan magistrate court in Egmore held both of them guilty of failing to comply with the statutory obligations of payment of contributions due to the ESI corporation.

The court ordered the accused to pay the due amount to the complainant.

After an illustrious career in the Hindi and Telugu film industries, Jayaprada joined the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in 1994 to enter politics. She became a Rajya Sabha MP and then a Lok Sabha MP. She became a member of the BJP in 2019.