The court fixed the date for hearing arguments on sentencing on August 2, when the detailed judgment will be out. “On June 19, she filed a complaint of sexual assault against Farooqui, and based on the complaint, a case was filed under IPC Section 376 (rape) at the New Friends Colony police station”, an officer said.
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A court here on Saturday held Mahmood Farooqui, the co-director of the 2010 Hindi film “Peepli Live”, guilty of raping an American woman.
Delhi police had filed its chargesheet in the case on June 29, alleging that Farooqui had raped the woman at his Sukhdev Vihar residence on March 28.
“The amendment to the criminal law in 2013 introduced forced oral sex”. The punishment for rape is a minimum jail term for 7 years. The woman, a research scholar of Indian origin, along with a senior official of the US Embassy, had filed an FIR with the Delhi Police, past year also.
“The accused (Farooqui) applied force and pushed her down”.
During the trial that began on September 9, the woman alleged that after raping her, Farooqui had apologised in several emails that he wrote to her. The other key deposition came from common friend of Farooqui and the victim 44-year-old Danish Hussain. Rizwi told the victim that her husband has bipolar disorder and is in rehabilitation. An American scholar accused Farooqui of forcing himself on her.
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The woman met Farooqui in Varanasi where she had gone to collect information.
