Mumbai: After getting a clean chit from the forensic lab, the Salman Khan-Aishwarya Rai tape controversy has cropped up again.
Bollywood actress Preity Zinta filed a defamation case against a Mumbai tabloid on Friday in Girgaum court, which had published her name in connection with the tapes, when the controversy broke out in July.
Preity is holding the editor, publisher and printer responsible for publishing the text of a supposed telephonic conversation between Aishwarya Rai and Salman Khan that had 'sexual overtones'.
"I don't want my name to be pulled into an embarrassing situation like this. I really don't think the tabloid should have dragged me into the issue, trying to make it sound like I am a promiscuous character," Preity says.
The tabloid had published the entire transcriptions of the alleged conversations between Bollywood stars Salman Khan and Aishwarya Rai in which Salman Khan had bragged about his 'affair' with Preity.
The conversation was punctuated with a lot of foul language.
When the controversy broke out in July, Preity was in New York shooting for her forthcoming films Jaaneman and Kabhie Alvida Na Kehna and so was unable to speak to media to clear her stance.
However since the tapes have now been declared unauthentic and fabricated, she has filed a defamation case against the tabloid.
The case is scheduled to come up for hearing in the court on December 13.
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