SC issues notice to film director Kazmi and Maharastra police in rape case

The Apex Court issued a notice to Hyder Jamilhussain Kazmi and Maharastra Police to give the response on the plea of a woman, who alleged that the director had raped her in 2012. However, the woman filed a complaint with the police in 2018, also alleging Karim's sister for making a video of the rape incident.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court issued a notice to Hindi film director and producer Hyder Jamilhussain Kazmi and Maharastra Police in the film actress rape case on Friday.

The actress had approached the apex court seeking the cancellation of bail grant to him in April this year.

The Apex Court bench of Justices Indira Banerjee and Sanjiv Khanna sought the responses from Kazmi and Maharastra Police on the plea of the woman and posted a matter for further hearing in July.

The woman had claimed that she was raped in 2012 when she went to meet Kazmi in his office where she was offered tea laced with a sedative.

The woman also alleged that the Kazmi's sister, Anish Kazmi, had made a video of the rape incident and threatened her to put it on the internet if she disclosed the incident to anyone.

She accused Kazmi of continuing sexual relationship with her with threats of leaking the video on social media. However, the woman filed a complaint with the police last year after she was physically assaulted by the director-cum-producer in public.

The Bombay High Court had recently granted bail to the accused after he spent six months in judicial custody.