Alka Badola Kaushal is an Indian actress and producer, known for her work in Bollywood. She is also popular for her roles in TV shows such as Kumkum – Ek Pyara Sa Bandhan and Qubool Hai.[1][2][3] She has played supportive roles in numerous Hindi TV serials, mainly negative characters or vamps.[4] She played the role of Sushma Oberoi in Mose Chhal Kiye Jaaye.
Personal life
Kaushal is the eldest of three children born to stage artist Vishwa Mohan S. Badola and Susheela Badola. She had attended the National School of Drama Repertory in her hometown Delhi, and later moved to Mumbai to pursue a career on Indian television. She is married to TV producer and director, Ravi G. Kaushal; the couple have started their own production house, Mangalam Arts.
In 2017, the actress and her mother were sent for two years to Sangrur district jail after the Sangrur (Punjab) court upheld the two-year jail term given to the television actress and her mother in a cheque-bounce case by a lower court. Alka and her mother had borrowed Rs.50 lakh from farmer Avtar Singh, to make a serial and gave him two cheques of Rs 25 lakh each which bounced and so he raised a case at a local court in Malerkotla in 2015, which sentenced the two to two years' imprisonment.[5] She was released from prison in 2018.[6]
