New Delhi: Filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar, who was summoned by a Mumbai Court on Monday in connection with a rape case filed in 2004, has issued a statement clarifying his side on the matter.
The filmmaker has decided to take up the matter to the higher court. Bhandarkar has posted a link of his statement on the social networking site Twitter.
The statement says, "As the lower court has issued a process against me today, 19th September, 2011, for a case which has been going on for 7 years, I would like to state here after reading the judgment that we will challenge this order in higher courts and seek justice."
A struggling model and actress Pretti Jain had accused Madhur Bhandarkar of raping her on the pretext of giving her a lead role in his forthcoming films.
Bhandarkar has written about the background of the case without taking anyone's name. He says, "Initially, on 12th July 2004 complainant had sent a legal notice to me stating if I don't cast her in my film as the leading lady within 48 hours of the legal notice served then she would adopt necessary criminal and civil legal proceedings against me by lodging a police complaint and complaining before the Hon'ble Court of Law against me for cheating, cohabitation caused by a man deceitfully inducing a belief of lawful marriage and criminal intimidation. There was no whisper of rape charges in that notice."
Further, the filmmaker has accused the complainants of being not trustworthy. The renowned director writes on his blog, "Then we came to know that on 9th July 2004 she had already sent a legal notice to one Mr Sohail Khan, an upcoming music director, stating that she is pregnant with his child, affirming that with a DNA test and she threatened him saying that if he doesn't accept the paternity of the child then she would take legal action against him in 7 days.On 22nd July 2004, she filed a complaint with the police alleging me of raping her, for which I was granted bail in the session court which was upheld by the Hon'ble High Court. The Hon'ble High Court had passed strong strictures against her saying her credibility has to be checked, she was trying to falsely implicate me, which cannot be ruled out."
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