Actress Kangana Ranaut appeared in the suburban Andheri Metropolitan Judge’s court on Monday in a libel case brought by Hindi film lyricist Javed Akhtar. During this she did not admit the crime. At his request, court proceedings were held behind closed doors. This is the third appearance of her in court after Akhtar filed a complaint against Ranaut in November 2020.
The judicial process was held behind closed doors and the magistrate ordered everyone, including the lawyers and the media, to leave as Ranaut, who arrived at court at 4:45 pm, did not want a ‘media trial’ . Before the process began, his lawyer had asked the court to ask everyone to leave, since his client did not want a ‘media trial’. However, journalists present at the court tried to speak to Judge RN Shaikh.
The trial began behind closed doors in the presence of lawyers for both parties, one of whom later said that the actress had not pleaded guilty, which meant that the trial could now begin. Ranaut also recorded her verification statement in her counterclaim filed against the screenwriter and lyricist. To record her statement in the counterclaim, the actress had obtained an order behind closed doors on a specific date in April.
Akhtar (76), in his complaint, had accused Ranaut of making defamatory statements against him in a television interview. He said that his reputation has been damaged by this. The lyricist had claimed that after actor Sushant Singh Rajput allegedly killed himself in June 2020, Ranaut had dragged his name during a TV interview while referring to him as a ‘troupe’ in Bollywood.
At the same time, the actress said in her complaint against Akhtar that after her public altercation with a co-star, the lyricist invited her and her sister Rangoli Chandel to her home “with malicious intent and bad faith and then threatened and threatened them. criminally”. .afraid.’