Updated On: 02 January, 2016 08:15 AM IST | | Letty Mariam Abraham
<p>Television actor Parth Samthaan has taken legal action against his male friend and TV producer Vikas Gupta, accusing him of molestation. Here are the sordid details of what seems to have happened</p>

This week has been controversy-ridden for the television industry with two cases of alleged sexual abuse coming to the fore. While actor Mrunal Jain has been accused of luring starlet Varsha Bhagwani into a physical relationship, Parth Samthaan of 'Kaisi Yeh Yaariyan' fame has slapped a legal notice on his former mentor, producer Vikas Gupta, claiming that he tried to molest him and a host of other ‘offences’ like extortion, criminal breach of trust, cheating with knowledge, dishonest or fraudulent removal of property, lurking house-trespass by night, forgery for harming reputation, criminal intimidation and abetment to commit suicide.

File pic of producer Vikas Gupta (left) with actor Parth Samthaan