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New Delhi, December 19
A Delhi court docket is prone to hear on January 21 a prison criticism filed by actor Nora Fatehi in opposition to Jacqueline Fernandez for allegedly defaming her by “unfairly dragging” her title right into a Rs 200 crore cash laundering case involving ‘conman’ Sukesh Chandrashekar.
Fatehi, a Canadian citizen, has additionally arrayed 15 media organisations as accused in her criticism.
The criticism was introduced up earlier than Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Snigdha Sarvaria, who assigned the matter to Metropolitan Magistrate Kapil Gupta.
Metropolitan Magistrate Gupta, thereafter, posted the matter for January 21 to resolve whether or not to take cognisance on the criticism.
Fatehi, who’s prone to seem earlier than the court docket on January 21, had mentioned in her criticism filed on December 12 that she has “a pristine reputation apart from a rapidly progressing career which has quite obviously threatened her rivals who are unable to compete with her on fair footing”.
The defamatory assertion was made by Fernandez in “bad faith” and with “mala fide intention” and was circulated by the media homes made accused within the criticism with an intent to defame her, she mentioned.
The criticism claimed the allegations made by Fernandez, additionally a Bollywood actor, that Fatehi had acquired items from Chandrashekar have been flawed.
“The only time the complainant spoke to Chandrashekar was when his wife, Leena Maria Paul, made her speak to him over speakerphone at the event in Chennai where the complainant was invited by Leena. At the event, the complainant was gifted an iPhone and a Gucci bag by Leena. No gifts were ever received by the complainant from Chandrashekar,” Fatehi has mentioned within the criticism.
Fatehi additionally denied she had acquired a luxurious automobile from Chandrashekar and mentioned it was half fee to her brother-in-law Bobby Khan, who Chandrashekar had approached for steering a film.
“Since the complainant had never even spoken to Chandrashekar let alone having met him, hence the imputation made by the Fernandez and the subsequent publishing of the same by the accused media houses are untrue,” the criticism mentioned.
The court docket had on November 15 granted bail to Fernandez, who’s an accused within the cash laundering case. She was not arrested within the case.
The court docket had on August 31 taken cognisance of a supplementary cost sheet filed by the Enforcement Directorate and requested Fernandez to seem earlier than it.
Fernandez, who was summoned by the ED a number of instances in reference to the investigation, has been named as an accused within the supplementary cost sheet.
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