Magistrate Court summons lyricist script writer Javed Akhtar in criminal intimidation case
Magistrate Court summons lyricist script writer
Javed Akhtar in criminal intimidation case
In a new development Metropolitan Magistrate Court has issued summons to famed lyricist and script writer Javed Akhtar to appear before them on August 5. He could even charged for acts intended to slur modesty of a woman.
He has bern summoned to appear before a Mumbai Court in connection to a counter complaint filed against him by Kangana Ranaut for alleged “extortion and criminal intimidation”. Now as per media reports, the court, while summoning him to appear on August 5, states that there was adequate grounds to proceed against him for the offence of criminal intimidation and gestures or acts intended to slur the modesty of a woman.
Javed had filed a complaint against Kangana in 2020 when over an interview she accused him for threatening her after calling her to his home amid her ugly fight with Hrithik Roshan over their alleged affair. It was then that Kangana filed a counter complaint against Javed Akhtar.
Metropolitan magistrate (Andheri court) R M Shaikh on July 24, amid issuing the summons, has said that no case of extortion was made out against the lyricist. Asking a person to give a written apology will not come under the definition of “valuable security” as defined under section 30 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) because no legal right is created, extended, transferred, restricted, extinguished or released.
The court added that as far as other offences levelled against the accused are concerned, on the basis of averments in the complaint, verification of the complainant and statement of her (Kangana’s) sister Rangoli Chandel, the court has come to the conclusion that there are adequate grounds to proceed against the accused for offence under IPC section 506 (criminal intimidation) and 509 (gestures or acts intended to insult the modesty of a woman).
Javed, in his complaint in 2020 had claimed that Kangana dragged his name in the midst of an interview while referring to a ‘coterie’ existing in Bollywood, following the alleged suicide by actor Sushant Singh Rajput.
Kangana went on to file a counter-complaint in the same court against Javed for alleged “extortion and criminal intimidation”. In her complaint she has alleged that following her public dispute with her Krrish 3 co-star, the lyricist had called her and her sister Rangoli to his house with “malafide intentions and ulterior motives and then criminally intimidated and threatened” her.
News input KV Raman
