A sessions court in Bombay on 28th August adjourned hearing in the anticipatory bail plea filed by Aditya Pancholi in an alleged rape case registered against him by Kangana Ranaut in June. The adjournment was granted after Kangana’s advocate submitted that the intervention application opposing Aditya’s bail plea had been wrongly filed in the name of Kangana’s sister. The lawyer told the court that he needed time to rectify the mistake and file the appropriate application.
In the previous hearing on the anticipatory bail plea last month, the court had observed that false implication could not be ruled out. Kangana had filed the case in June, soon after a magistrate had issued process against her in a defamation case which Pancholi filed against her in 2017. Kangana’s case of alleged rape related to 2004-09 and was filed very late.