Ekta Kapoor, Anita Hassanandani, other TV celebs stand by actor Pearl V Puri amid rape allegations

After TV actor Pearl V Puri was accused of rape of a minor, many celebs such as Ekta Kapoor, Ishita Dutta, and Anita Hassanandani came out to support him on social media and deemed him innocent of the charges.

New Delhi: After TV actor Pearl V Puri was arrested by Mumbai police on alleged rape charges against a minor girl, TV producer Ekta Kapoor and Pearl's co-star Anita Hassanandani have dismissed it as a false charge. They took to their Instagram handles to announce Pearl's innocence and stated that the allegations made against him were baseless.  Ekta Kapoor penned a long note asking for justice for the actor. She wrote, "Will I support a child molester…or a molester of any kind? But what I witnessed from last night to now, was the absolute low in human depravity. How can humanity go to this level? How can people who are upset with each other, drag a third person into their own fight? How can a human being take on another human being and do this? After various calls with the child‘s/girl’s mother, who openly said that Pearl was not involved and it’s her husband trying to create stories to keep her child and prove that a working mother on a set cannot take care of her kid. If this is true then it is wrong on so many levels!"