Court stays order on Kangana Ranaut's plea to allow sister Rangoli to depose in court

The Andheri magistrate court reserved its order on Kangana Ranaut's petition to allow her sister Rangoli to depose in court after Javed Akhtar opposed it.

The Magistrate court in Andheri on Friday reserved its order on the application filed by actor Kangana Ranaut requesting that her sister Rangoli be summoned to court to depose. The court’s decision came after the complainant in the case, Javed Akhtar opposed Ranaut’s application.

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Javed Akhtar had filed a complaint against Kangana Ranaut in 2020 saying that she had defamed him on a television channel. Ranaut, on the other hand said that Akhtar had “no business intervening between her and actor Hrithik Roshan”.

She said that Akhtar had called a meeting in March 2016 where he tried to intimidate her. She filed a complaint against Akhtar over this meeting and said that Akhtar was extorting an apology from her.

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Ranaut’s application filed before the Magistrate court stated that her sister Rangoli had accompanied her to the meeting. She said her sister should be summoned to court under Section 311 (Power to summon material witness, or examine persons present) of the Criminal Procedure Code “so that the true and correct facts of the case are put on record.”

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