{"id":40601,"date":"2015-12-24T15:39:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T10:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=40601"},"modified":"2015-12-25T02:39:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T21:09:38","slug":"farooqui-case-court-to-hear-arguments-from-jan-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/farooqui-case-court-to-hear-arguments-from-jan-7","title":{"rendered":"Farooqui case: Court to hear arguments from Jan 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_39324\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39324\" style=\"width: 284px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/%E2%80%98Peepli-Live%E2%80%99-co-director-Mahmood-Farooqui.png?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-39324\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"39324\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/farooquis-wife-asked-me-to-persuade-us-national-says-friend\/peepli-live-co-director-mahmood-farooqui\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/%E2%80%98Peepli-Live%E2%80%99-co-director-Mahmood-Farooqui.png?fit=284%2C177&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"284,177\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\u2018Peepli Live\u2019 co-director Mahmood Farooqui\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/%E2%80%98Peepli-Live%E2%80%99-co-director-Mahmood-Farooqui.png?fit=284%2C177&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-39324 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/%E2%80%98Peepli-Live%E2%80%99-co-director-Mahmood-Farooqui.png?resize=284%2C177&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Farooqui case: Court to hear arguments from Jan 7\" width=\"284\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39324\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farooqui case: Court to hear arguments from Jan 7<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The trial in a case involving &#8216;Peepli Live&#8217; co-director Mahmood Farooqui, who is accused of raping a US researcher, would enter its final stage with a Delhi court slated to hear the final arguments from January 7.<\/p>\n<p>The trial in the case had commenced on September 9 before Additional Sessions Judge Sanjiv Jain who has fixed the matter for final arguments after concluding the recording of defence evidence.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged victim, based in the US, had appeared in the court on September 14 to record her statement in the case.<\/p>\n<p>While posting the matter for final arguments, the court also extended the interim bail granted to Farooqui till next date.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old American woman had, during the in-camera proceedings, alleged that Farooqui had raped her at his Sukhdev Vihar residence here on March 28 and later apologised to her in the several e-mails exchanged between them.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the victim, the court had also recorded statements of her friends, a magistrate who had recorded her statement under section 164 of CrPC, police officials and forensic department, who appeared as prosecution witnesses in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Farooqui has denied the allegations levelled against him saying he was falsely implicated by the woman.<\/p>\n<p>The filmmaker was granted 15 days&#8217; interim bail by the court on October 15 after he had moved a plea contending that he needed to be with his ailing father who was suffering from bleeding haemorrhoids andhas been advised surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The court had started the trial in the case after framing charges of rape under section 376 (rape) of IPC against him.<\/p>\n<p>The police had on June 19 lodged an FIR against Farooqui on the complaint of the woman after which the filmmaker was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>On June 29, a charge sheet was filed against Farooqui alleging he had raped the research scholar from Colombia University at his house in south Delhi on March 28.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trial in a case involving &#8216;Peepli Live&#8217; co-director Mahmood Farooqui, who is accused of raping a US researcher, would enter its final stage with a Delhi court slated to hear the final arguments from January 7. 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