Actor Rakhi Sawant lately moved the Bombay Excessive Court docket looking for quashing of the defamation and outrage of modesty case filed by a mannequin in opposition to her final 12 months. The mannequin had complained that Sawant made her ‘inappropriate’ movies and images viral and that the video proven to the media was ‘sexually specific’. Nevertheless, Sawant claimed that the girl complainant had filed a case in opposition to her “pushed by a want for revenge”.
The plea by Sawant filed by means of advocate Ali Kaashif Khan Deshmukh states, “The false accusations and defamatory statements made by the complainant not solely trigger private misery but in addition smash Sawant’s as soon as profitable profession. It’s evident that the complainant holds a grudge and filed the false FIR as an act of revenge.”
Sawant was booked underneath Sections 354(A) (outraging modesty of a lady), 500 (defamation), 504 (intent to impress breach of peace), and 509 (insulting modesty of a lady) of the Indian Penal Code together with Part 67(A) of the Info and Expertise Act, amongst others.
The petitioner claimed that she and the complainant had amicably resolved all disputes, nonetheless, the pendency of the FIR was nothing however a “tactic” by the complainant to waste judicial time.
She claimed that Part 354A of the IPC couldn’t be invoked in opposition to a lady because it was relevant in opposition to a person. She sought quashing of the FIR and the chargesheet filed on October 18, 2023. The HC will hear the plea sooner or later.
Earlier, on April 17, 2023, a single-judge bench of Justice Anuja Prabhudessai had granted anticipatory bail to Sawant within the case noting that her custodial interrogation was not required and had requested her to cooperate with the probe. In March this 12 months, the HC directed the police to take crucial steps to delete the video involved from YouTube and different social media platforms.