Jeetendra's cousin has filed a complaint against the veteran actor, accusing him of sexaully assaulting her at the age of 18...
Veteran Bollywood actor Jeetendra has been accused of sexual assault by one of his cousins. The alleged assault incident took place about 47 years ago at a hotel in Shimla while he was apparently shooting a film there.
The woman whose identity has been withheld, wrote a letter to the DGP of Himachal Pradesh and explained the fateful incident in detail. An India Today report suggests that the incident apparently took place in the year 1971 when the victim had just turned 18 and the actor was 28 and had entered the showbiz.
As per a news18 report, in her letter to the DGP, Himachal Pradesh, th cousin has stated that Jeetendra took her father's permission to take her on the sets of his film's shoot. On reaching Shimla at night she and the actor were supposed to share a room with two separate beds.
The complaint further reveals that the actor had gone out and she had gone to sleep on the bed that faced a wall. The cousin alleged that later, when the actor returned, he joined the two beds together while she was still asleep and then sexually assaulted her.
While the actor and other family members haven't responded to the accusations yet, Advocate Rizwan Siddiquee, representing Jeetendra has given out an official statement, saying that the actor denies the said incident.
Here's the full statement:
"Foremost my client specifically and categorically denies any such incident. Besides even otherwise such baseless, ridiculous and fabricated claims cannot be entertained by any Court of law or the law enforcement agencies after a span of almost 50 years. The Statute has provided a justice delivery system through the Courts, and the Limitation Act 1963 was specifically enacted to ensure that all genuine complaints are made within a maximum time limit of three years, so that a proper investigation is carried out and timely justice is delivered.
Besides I want to make it specifically clear that the law does not give any person any rights or liberties of making any baseless, ridiculous or fabricated claims against any man publicly and seek to defame him with a hidden personal agenda.
Media is therefore adviced to cautiously refrain from giving any importance to such ridiculous, baseless and fabricated claims, and they should not participate in any way whatsoever in defaming or assassinating the character of any man in such cases.
In any event the timing of this baseless complaint seems to be nothing but a miserable effort made by a jealous competitor to disrupt the business activities of my client and his esteemed Company. Such efforts are therefore in all fairness treated with the contempt it truly deserves.”
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