Mumbai: Actor Kangana Ranaut's sister Rangoli Chandel has praised a former Bollywood actor (name withheld) for her effort and will to fight against the harassment case. A Mumbai-based man was convicted on Wednesday and sentenced to three years of imprisonment by a Mumbai special court for molesting the actor in a Delhi-Mumbai flight in December 2017.
Rangoli tweeted, "Vry proud f her who went through so much hassle to fight the case also the trauma f being subjected to teasing scrutiny & above all prejudices all victims face...bt hats off to her at such a tender age she hs lots f fire in her #Bharatkibeti #NewIndia."
The actor was 17 when the incident took place, hence, considered a minor in this case. In December 2017, she claimed that she was molested on a Vistara flight from Delhi to Mumbai. She accused the Mumbai-based man of constantly rubbing against her as she tried to sleep and said that the airline staff were of no help either.
In fact, the actor was shamed for bringing up the incident. Vikas' family, on the other hand, claimed Sachdev was sleeping himself and that the whole incident was simply an accident that had been misinterpreted.
The actor quit acting in 2019, at the age of 18, when she declared that her profession (acting) "threatened" her relationship with her religion.
"As I had just started to explore and make sense of the things to which I dedicated my time, efforts and emotions and tried to grab hold of a new lifestyle, it was only for me to realise that though I may fit here perfectly, I do not belong here," she wrote, adding, "This field indeed brought a lot of love, support, and applause my way, but what it also did was to lead me to a path of ignorance, as I silently and unconsciously transitioned out of Imaan [faith]. While I continued to work in an environment that consistently interfered with my Imaan, my relationship with my religion was threatened," she wrote on her Facebook account.
