India, Sept. 12 -- The ongoing dispute within the Cine and TV Artistes' Association (CINTAA) has escalated, with allegations of documents being removed from its office amid a legal battle and court-mandated elections. The row intensified after videos showing former president Poonam Dhillon, former vice-president Padmini Kolhapure, former general secretary Upasana Singh and others arguing over the attempt to move documents and access to the office surfaced online.

Poonam says the documents were being moved to safeguard CINTAA's records. "We were taking CINTAA papers to the CINTAA office. That office of CINTAA is the registered office in all our documents. Even with the trade union, that is our registered office, where we took our document...