Pradeep MachirajuPradeep Machiraju, one of the popular male anchors of the Telugu television has become the point of discussion after a controversy about an alleged case of a woman who claimed that she was raped more than five thousand times by 139 persons.

Among the people she mentioned in her complaint at Punjagutta Police Station in Hyderabad, there was Pradeep Machiraju’s name. Suddenly, he became the centre of trolling on social media platforms.

Pained by the rumours and also the videos that surfaced through YouTube channels using thumbnails that anchor Pradeep was an alleged rapist, the male anchor released a video expressing his angst at people who are defaming and trolling him.

He said, “They are raping me, mentally’. He appealed to all those who have creating stories based on the rape allegations to at least wait till the truth surfaces and find out the facts.