Mumbai: Weeks after Nawazuddin Siddiqui's wife Aaliya Siddiqui demanded divorce alleging mental and emotional torture, his niece filed a complaint against his brother.
Alleging sexual harassment, Nawaz's niece has registered a complaint at Jamia police station in Delhi.
In an interview with a news portal, she said: "I have filed a complaint about sexual harassment by my uncle when I was nine-year-old. My parents were divorced when I was two-year-old, so I had a stepmother. I was tortured a lot. As a child, I didn’t understand thinking it was my uncle, but when I grew up I realized it was a different kind of touch. There was violence too."
In another conversation, she recalled it all started from their paternal home in Budhna when her uncle used to "touch her inappropriately" and no one used to believe her including Nawazuddin Siddiqui. She also "told her grandmother and father about the same but they too turned deaf years."
She further added it was "in the year 2017 when the accused tried to form a sexual relation forcefully." She was "hit hard" and suffered severe injuries.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui reportedly did not support her when she needed help. She said: "Nawaz bade papa once asked me what I want to do in life, I told him all that was happening with me and that I felt mentally disturbed. But he said there is nothing like that. I thought that at least bade papa (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) would understand, he lives in a different society and would have a different mentality. But he was like 'chacha hai, aisa kabhi nahi kar sakte'."
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She has also alleged that her paternal family harassed her husband and her in-laws. "Even after my marriage, my father and Nawaz bade papa was also involved, filed false cases to harass my in-laws. If they would have been strict then this would not have happened. They never believed me. Even now every six months my father files some cases and I am sure he will do something after my complaint too. But I have got a lot of support from my husband for this. I have the proof of all the physical violence, which I have sent to my husband," she stated.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui's niece files sexual harrassment complaint against his brother, wife Aaliya reacts Taking to Twitter, Nawaz's estranged wife Aaliya put out her reaction saying: "This is just the beginning. Thanking God for sending so much support already. Lot will be revealed, shocking the world as I am not the only one who suffered in silence. Let's see how much of TRUTH money can buy & who all would they continue to BRIBE."
