The 10th Andheri metropolitan magistrate court in Bombay has summoned writer-lyricist Javed Akhtar on actress Kangana Ranaut’s complaint under sections 506 (criminal intimidation) and 509 (insult to the modesty of a woman) of the Indian Penal Code. Akhtar is required to appear before the court on August 5.
Ranaut filed the complaint against Akhtar after he filed a defamation complaint against her following an interview to a TV news channel in which Ranaut claimed that Akhtar had pressured her to apologise to actor Hrithik Roshan some years ago. At that time, Hrithik Roshan and Kangana Ranaut were publicly involved in a dispute over some emails between them. In the interview, the actress said that Javed had told her in a meeting that if she did not apologise to Hrithik, the Roshans would have her sent to jail where she would have no option but to commit suicide.