The victim, a student at Columbia University in NY, had told the police that she was raped by the filmmaker at his Sukhdev Vihar house in southern Delhi on 28 March past year.
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Farooqui, who pleaded not guilty, was taken into custody at the weekend.
The court said: “There is no reason to observe for the prosecutrix to falsely implicate the accused”. He asked her to go to his office in the other room.
During the trial, the woman alleged that after raping her, Farooqui had apologised via multiple emails.
It tasked the Delhi Legal Service Authority to decide appropriate compensation for the woman.
Farooqui, however, has denied all the allegations and maintained that the case was falsely implicated.
Mahmood Farooqui, best known for co-directing the popular 2010 satire “Peepli Live” on farmer suicides, was convicted on Saturday after a fast-track court in New Delhi found him guilty of the March 2015 attack. Farooqui was a co-director.
The man who is in his 40, was out on bail since accused of the crime, but upon learning of his conviction, Farooqui was then sent to jail last Thursday by Judge Sanjiv Jain.
Farooqui too has rubbished all such charges against him. The police had on July 29 last year 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.
The publication reminds of the ongoing issue this case sheds light on in India.
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Delhi Police even sought extreme punishment of life imprisonment where they argued that since he belongs to the higher strata of the society, he had “an additional responsibility on him not to conduct himself in a such a manner”. However, 7 years is the final time frame given by the apex court and here, we bring you quick lowdown on what’s the case all about…
