{"id":45177,"date":"2016-10-05T09:10:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T03:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=45177"},"modified":"2016-10-05T09:10:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T03:40:13","slug":"delhi-hc-seeks-police-reply-farooquis-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/delhi-hc-seeks-police-reply-farooquis-appeal","title":{"rendered":"Delhi HC seeks police reply on Farooqui&#8217;s appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_39324\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39324\" style=\"width: 284px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><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-medium-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-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=\"Delhi HC seeks police reply on Farooqui's appeal\" width=\"284\" height=\"177\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39324\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Delhi HC seeks police reply on Farooqui&#8217;s appeal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Delhi High Court today sought the response of Delhi Police on a plea filed by Bollywood film &#8216;Peepli Live&#8217; co-director Mahmood Farooqui, sentenced to seven years imprisonment for raping a US researcher, challenging his conviction.<\/p>\n<p>Justice S P Garg also issued notice to the police on the bail plea of Farooqui and directed it to file its reply by November 30, the next date of hearing.<\/p>\n<p>A trial court had on August 4 sent him to jail for seven years observing that he had taken advantage of the situation when the victim was alone in his house.<\/p>\n<p>The court, which on July 30 had held Farooqui guilty of raping the American woman last year at his house in a drunken state, had also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on him.<\/p>\n<p>While convicting 44-year-old Farooqui, the trial court had said the victim&#8217;s testimony was credible that he took advantage of the fact that their common friends were not at his residence where the researcher had visited.<\/p>\n<p>Farooqui, who was earlier out on bail, was taken into custody immediately after his conviction in the case.<\/p>\n<p>The police had on June 19, 2015, lodged the FIR against Farooqui on the woman&#8217;s complaint after which he was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>On July 29 last year, the police filed a charge sheet against Farooqui alleging he had raped the research scholar from Columbia University at his Sukhdev Vihar house in South Delhi on March 28 last year.<\/p>\n<p>The victim had alleged in court during an in-camera hearing that Farooqui had raped her and later apologised in several e-mails exchanged between them.<\/p>\n<p>Farooqui had denied the allegations against him, saying he was falsely implicated by the woman.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi High Court today sought the response of Delhi Police on a plea filed by Bollywood film &#8216;Peepli Live&#8217; co-director Mahmood Farooqui, sentenced to seven years imprisonment for raping a US researcher, challenging his conviction. 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