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I took to flesh trade for money: Shweta Basu
National award winning actress Shweta Basu, who was arrested for prostitution here, has revealed that she took to the sex trade as she was running out of money.
Award-winning actress confesses to the crime
Hyderabad: National award winning actress Shweta Basu, who was arrested for prostitution here, has revealed that she took to the sex trade as she was running out of money.
The 23-year-old actress, who was arrested on Sunday, is currently lodged in a State-run rescue home. She admitted she made wrong choices in her career.
According to the police, Shweta said that she had run out of money. "I had to support my family and some other good causes. All the doors were closed, and some people encouraged me to get into prostitution to earn money. I was helpless, and with no option left to choose, I got involved in this act," she reportedly told the police. The actress, seen in films like "Makdee" and "Iqbal" also revealed that there were other actresses like her who went through this.Shweta, who shot to fame as a child artiste in Ekta Kapoor's television serial "Kahaani Ghar Ghar Ki", bagged the national award for best child artist for "Makdee" in 2002.
The actress, who also did a few films in Bengali, Tamil and Telugu, was arrested from a hotel on Sunday night along with the sex racket's organiser Anjaneyulu alias Balu.
