The legal battle between lyricist Javed Akhtar and bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut continues. Javed Akhtar has been asked to be present before the Andheri court on August 5, 2024. The Magistrate court in Mumbai has summoned Javed Akhtar on Kangana’s complaint under Indian Penal Code sections 506 (criminal intimidation) and 509 (insult to the modesty of a woman), as per a report by India Today.
A prime witness summoned by the court
A prime witness of this case, Javed Akhtar and Kangana Raunat’s physician, Dr. Ramesh Agarwal was brought before the 10th Magistrate court as a witness, on monday. He recalled the meeting that took place in 2016 between Javed Akhtar, Kangana Ranaut and the actress’s sister Rangoli Chandel. He said that he was told by Javed Akhtar that he wanted to settle things down for Kangana and Hrithik Roshan. Dr. Ramesh Agarwal is a common friend of Javed Akhtar and Kangana Ranaut and Javed said that it was not until their physician introduced Kangana to Javed, he did not know her.
Kangana’s visit to Javed Akhtar’s home
In 2020, after the reported suicide of Sushant Singh Rajput, Kangana said in a television interview that she was threatened by Javed for speaking about the case and was pressured to apologize to Hrithik. It was witnessed that in 2016 Javed invited Kangana and her sister to his home to discuss the case. Kangana in the interview said that Javed Akhtar told her to apologize to the Roshans since they are ‘big people’ and her career will be ruined and she will have nothing left but to commit suicide.
Apparently after the interview with Kangana, Javed filed a defamation case against her stating that she was trying to defame him with false allegations. In answer to this, Kangana also filed a complaint against him. The court in 2021 found sufficient evidence to accept and proceed with the trial.
The doctor’s confession to the lawyers of both parties
The doctor stated that he was present in the meeting that happened between Javed Akhtar and Kangana Ranaut and her sister. When Jay Bharadwaj, Javed Akhtar’s lawyer asked him about what exactly Javed told her in the meeting, he said that the meeting was for around half an hour and before leaving he told Kangana to apologize to her. Javed’s lawyer counter-questioned if the word Javed used was ‘padegi’ or ‘mangiye’, the witness confirmed that Javed told her “aap maafi mangiye” (you seek forgiveness). He even denied any possibility of exchange of harsh words during the meeting that day. He said the meeting was peaceful and neither of the party misbehaved verbally or physically.
When the witness was questioned by Kangana’s lawyer Rizwan Siddiquee the Roshans asked or requested Javed to be a part of the dispute between and settle the matter for them, the former denied. He also said that the reason behind the meeting was to ask both Roshan and Kangana to apologize to each other, however he didn’t know that the Roshans were not invited in the meeting at all.
Later he ended the conversation stating that when Kangana was leaving Javed’s house she told him that she felt uncomfortable since she was the only one to be asked to apologize and not Hrithik Roshan.
