Anirban Blah, the co-founder of Kwan Entertainment, was asked to step aside from his position in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations against him. All this hasn't gone down well with him as he tried to commit suicide today.

KWAN Entertainment founder Anirban Das Blah, a popular Bollywood celebrity manager, couldn't escape the wave of India's one of the biggest movements, Me Too. He was asked to step aside from his position in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations against him. “We have asked Anirban Blah to forthwith step aside from his duties, activities and responsibilities at KWAN, its subsidiaries and affiliates with immediate effect,” said a statement issued by the entertainment and marketing company. All this hasn't gone down well with him as he tried to commit suicide today.

Going by the report in The Hindu, he was rescued in the wee hours of Friday (today) by the Vashi Traffic police after they found him on Vashi old bridge. The incident happened at around 12.30 am and police could manage to save him after they got the tip-off at the right time. "We had information about an individual coming towards Vashi bridge to commit suicide. We couldn't take chance and we laid a trap there in dark," senior police inspector from Vashi traffic said.

Blah was climbing the barricades of the bridge when the police caught hold of him. "He was crying. He seemed very frustrated and depressed. We took him to the police station, offered him water and asked his problem to which he said that he was frustrated with the #MeToo allegations on him. He was depressed due to the defamation he and his family faced. He along with nine other partners had founded KWAN and after four girls alleged him of harassment in #MeToo campaign, he was asked to resign," Mr Gaikwad said.

Post that, his wife was contacted by the traffic police, and then, Vashi police was given the charge. "The traffic police handed him to us but we haven't charged him as he has not done any (suicidal) act. He told us that he had come for a walk at the bridge. After his family reached, we handed him over to them," senior police inspector Anil Deshmukh from Vashi police station said.

He sent his suicide note to a Times of India journalist, a part of which reads as," " Without trying to justify any of my actions, I just want to say that I have tried to be the best person I can be. I didn't have the strength to cope with what happened to me as a child in a healthy way. I never was able to separate sex from power, to make it a part of love, and somewhere along the way one part of me turned into a monster."

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Credits :The Hindu

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