Shruti Das goes to cops after 2 years of online abuse over ‘dusky skin’

Television

actor Shruti Das has lodged a police complaint after receiving a barrage of online hate comments regarding her dusky skin tone since 2019, after getting a break in Bengali serials.

In doing this, Das, 23, has possibly become the first person from the

Tollywood

industry to formally lodge a complaint against such a form of abuse.

Das, who plays the character of

Noah

, the lead in the series 'Desher Mati', says the

online abuse

started since she bagged the role in 2019, with the comments getting increasingly vicious as the series started to get more popular.

"The trolls accuse me of manipulating my partner, who is a director, to get this role. They claim it would otherwise have been impossible for a dusky person like me to get such a chance," Das told TOI.

On Thursday, she tagged

Kolkata Police

in a social media post, citing the abuse. "I was told to submit my complaint to the cyber police station via an email," she says, adding, "I have done that and am waiting for action."