A division bench of justice Ranjana Desai and justice Mridula Bhatkar of the Bombay high court issued a notice to Vijay Galani, the producer and director of Khan’s film Veer.
Bollywood actor Salman Khan is in the soup for ‘helping a paraplegic fan with donation and then using it as a ‘publicity stunt’.
A division bench of justice Ranjana Desai and justice Mridula Bhatkar of the Bombay high court issued a notice to Vijay Galani, the producer and director of Khan’s film Veer, and to a city-based tabloid and its reporter for printing a story in favour of the actor.
The court was hearing a petition filed by Phool Banoo Bakshi Ilahi.
The court directed Khan, the senior inspector and the assistant commissioner of the VP Road police station, and the deputy commissioner of police, Zone II, to file their replies in two weeks.
Ilahi said in her petition that she was a big fan of the actor and had visited his home in Bandra, along with her family in April 2009.
“I had requested his driver to allow me to meet him,” she said in the petition. “On my request, Salman agreed to meet me at Goregaon Film City. I met him at the Mehboob studios while he was shooting for Veer.” The actor also posed with her for a photograph.
Ilahi said that she was surprised and shocked when she saw her photograph with the actor alongside a story titled, ‘Dildar Salman Khan’, in a tabloid. Khan, on the request of Vijay Gilani, gave a statement in the paper that he had helped me by giving Rs1 lakh.
Advocate Mohammad Iqbal Yunus Solkar on behalf of Ilahi said
his client had to suffer after the news was published. “Not a single penny was given to her by the actor,” Solkar said. “She faced criticism from society and also her relatives. The actor and the other respondents should apologise for this act.”
Defending Khan, his counsel SV Marvadi said the actor had not made any such statement. Marvadi informed the court that Ilahi has already filed a private complaint against the actor.
The court asked Ilahi if she would be satisfied with an unconditional apology from Khan and the other respondents.
“We can direct the respondents to carry an unconditional apology in the same space where the story was printed,” Desai said.
Ilahi too will file her reply in two weeks.
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