Mumbai courts dismisses extortion charge against Javed Akhtar filed by Kangana Ranaut

A Mumbai court recently dropped the charges against veteran lyricist Javed Akhtar in the extortion case filed by Kangana Ranaut involving Hrithik Roshan. A report in India Today quoted the magistrate court stating: “Asking a person to give a written apolomumbaigy will not come under the definition of valuable security….because no legal right is created, extended, transferred, restricted, extinguished or released." Talking about the case, in March 2016, Javed Akhtar had invited Kangana to offer advice regarding her spat with Hrithik but in an interview in 2020, the 'Queen' actress alleged that Javed Akhtar had threatened her for speaking out on the issue. Kangana even put extortion charges on him and her plea stated, ''However, the accused, with a malafide intention and ulterior motive, called her and her sister Rangoli Chandel at his house in Juhu in the month of March 2016 and criminally intimidated and threatened the complainant (Kangana Ranaut) as well as forced her to tender a written apology to the co-star thereby forcefully seeking to create a document (valuable security) in favour of her co-star''. Kangana in her interview post the demise of Sushant Singh Rajput had said: 'Once Javed Akhtar called me to his house and told me Rakesh Roshan (father of Hrithik Roshan) and his family are very big people. If you don’t apologise to them, you will have nowhere to go. They will put you in jail, and eventually, the only path would be that of destruction… you will commit suicide. These were his words. He shouted and yelled at me. I was shaking in his house'. Meanwhile, Javed Akhtar had also filed a defamation lawsuit against the actress. For more news and updates, stay tuned to ETimes.

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