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A sexual harassment case has been filed against veteran bollywood actor Jeetendra by his cousin sister. The case has been filed in Shimla.
According to the reports, the accused has come forward to file a police complaint 47 years after the alleged incident.
The incident reportedly took place in 1971 when the victim was 18 and Jeetendra was 28 and the actor “arranged” for the survivor to join him from New Delhi to Shimla on the set of his movie without her “awareness”.
The complainant has claimed that on the night they reached Shimla, Jeetendra returned to the room in an inebriated state, joined the two separate beds and sexually assaulted her.
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The victim took almost 47 years to file a complaint against the actor as she didn’t want her parents (who are deceased now) to be heart broken back in the day.
While, in a statement issued in Mumbai, Jeetendra’s advocate Rizwan Siddiquee said the allegation was “baseless and ridiculous”.
“Foremost, my client specifically and categorically denies any such incident. Besides even otherwise such baseless, ridiculous and fabricated claims cannot be entertained by any Court of law or the law enforcement agencies after a span of almost 50 years,” it said.
Siddiquee said the law did not give any person “any rights or liberties of making any baseless… claims against any man publicly and seek to defame him with a hidden personal agenda. Media is therefore advised to cautiously refrain from giving any importance to such ridiculous, baseless and fabricated claims, and they should not participate in any way whatsoever in defaming or assassinating the character of any man in such cases.”
Jeetendra, now 75 is one of the established actor in Hindi cinema. He is also a film producer. His daughter Ekta runs a production company, and son Tusshar is an actor.
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