{"id":19203,"date":"2012-04-10T11:02:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T05:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=19203"},"modified":"2012-04-10T11:02:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T05:32:57","slug":"supreme-court-breather-for-madhur-bhandarkar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/supreme-court-breather-for-madhur-bhandarkar","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court breather for Madhur Bhandarkar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/supreme-court-breather-for-madhur-bhandarkar\/filmmaker-madhur-bhandarkar\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19204\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"19204\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/supreme-court-breather-for-madhur-bhandarkar\/filmmaker-madhur-bhandarkar\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/Filmmaker-Madhur-Bhandarkar.png?fit=273%2C185&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"273,185\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/Filmmaker-Madhur-Bhandarkar.png?fit=150%2C101&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/Filmmaker-Madhur-Bhandarkar.png?fit=273%2C185&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19204\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Filmmaker-Madhur-Bhandarkar.png?resize=273%2C185&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/Filmmaker-Madhur-Bhandarkar.png?w=273&amp;ssl=1 273w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/Filmmaker-Madhur-Bhandarkar.png?resize=150%2C101&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/><\/a>The Supreme Court Monday stayed criminal proceedings against filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar in a rape charge levelled against him by actress Priti Jain.<\/p>\n<p>While staying the proceedings, an apex court bench of Justice H.L. 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Prasad issued notice to the Maharashtra government and Jain on Bhandarkar&#8217;s plea seeking that the case against him be quashed.<\/p>\n<p>Bhandarkar had challenged the Bombay High Court order asking him to face trial in the alleged rape case.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2004, Jain had lodged a complaint alleging that Bhandarkar had raped her several times between 1999 and 2004 under the pretext of marrying her and casting her as actress in his movies.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the Mumbai police in its report had said that the allegations against Bhandarkar were &#8216;maliciously false&#8217;, the Mumbai metropolitan court in September last year did not accept it and held that there was substance in Jain&#8217;s complaint, and issued process against Bhandarkar, directing him to face the trial.<\/p>\n<p>The magistrate&#8217;s court in November last year had granted anticipatory bail to the Bollywood filmmaker.<\/p>\n<p>Bhandarkar had challenged the lower court&#8217;s order before the high court which too had rejected his plea.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court Monday stayed criminal proceedings against filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar in a rape charge levelled against him by actress Priti Jain. 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