Mumbai: Former Bigg Boss contestant and actress Ayesha Khan was detained by Mumbai Police on Wednesday while attending a protest held in solidarity with NEET aspirants in Mumbai. Sharing multiple videos on social media, Khan alleged she had been standing peacefully on the road when police took her into custody and placed her in a police bus.
The videos show Khan being pushed inside the police van by female police officers, even as she is seen resisting and asking why she was being taken into custody.
Khan, who entered Bigg Boss 17 as a wildcard contestant, later rose to prominence after featuring in the Dhurandhar song “Shararat.”
Ayesha Khan Detained by Mumbai Police
In a series of videos posted on her Instagram, Khan appeared visibly shaken as she described the incident. “My hands are literally shivering right now. I’ve been detained in the police van just for standing on the road peacefully. I didn’t say a word. I didn’t even start the protest. I was just standing because my brother and my male friends were detained, and we were just standing on the road. Me and two of my other female friends,” she said.
In another video, Khan was heard asking police officials where they were taking those who had been detained. In a separate clip, she requested officers not to push her as she was being escorted to the police bus.
Mumbai Protests in Solidarity with NEET Aspirants
The protest in Mumbai was organised in support of the student-led demonstrations in Delhi over alleged irregularities in the NEET examination. Similar protests have been held in several cities over the past few days. Actors Gurfateh Singh Pirzada and Laapataa Ladies star Pratibha Ranta had also taken part in Tuesday’s protest march in Mumbai.
In a longer video recorded from Worli Police Station, Khan said she had reached the protest venue around 4 pm to show solidarity with NEET aspirants and students who had died by suicide. She alleged that the group had not even begun protesting when police intervened, claiming they had neither raised slogans nor displayed placards and were simply standing on the roadside after some of her friends and her brother were taken into a police van.
Khan said around 15 police personnel, including women officers, surrounded her and two of her female friends and asked them to get into the police van. “I kept asking why we were being detained. We were just standing on the road. We hadn’t even started protesting. Nobody answered us,” she said.
She further claimed that she and her friends were forcibly taken to Worli Police Station. While she said the officers at the police station spoke to them politely, she questioned the conduct of personnel at the protest site, alleging that she and her friends were pushed while being detained and asked what law they had violated. She also said that only three of them were standing together and questioned why they were detained, claiming the restrictions being cited had not yet come into effect at the time.
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Khan later said she had been released and was heading to another police station to secure her brother’s release.
Who Is Ayesha Khan?
Model-turned-actress Ayesha Khan first gained national attention with her appearance on Bigg Boss 17. She has since featured in the web series “Dil Ko Rafu Karr Lei” and the Kapil Sharma-starrer “Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon 2.” Khan gained wider popularity after appearing in the song “Shararat” from Aditya Dhar’s Dhurandhar alongside actress Krystal D’Souza. She remains active on social media, frequently sharing her views on social and current affairs, and enjoys a strong following on Instagram.
