Twenty-one-year-old budding television actress Chethana Raj died at a private liposuction facility in Bangalore after she underwent the fat reduction procedure on 16th May. Chethana had acted in Kannada TV shows Geetha and Doresani.
She had got admitted to Dr. Shetty’s Cosmetic Centre at Rajajinagar in Bangalore on 16th after paying Rs. 92,000 for the procedure. She reportedly arranged for the money from friends as her family was not in favour of it. Around 6 p.m., after the procedure, she reportedly developed complications. Her parents rushed her to a hospital with an ICU facility but the doctors there declared her “brought dead” around 7 p.m.
The police registered a case of unnatural death based on a complaint by Chethana’s father who alleged medical negligence by the cosmetic centre. The father said that the centre carried out the surgery without the consent of her family members.