Mumbai: T-Series chairperson and managing director Bhushan Kumar withdrew his petition against an FIR lodged against him in an alleged rape case. His lawyer sought to withdraw the petition after a magistrate court accepted a closure report filed by the police. In July 2021 an FIR was filed by a woman accusing him of allegedly repeatedly sexually assaulting her between September 2017 and August 2022 on pretext of giving her a job in his music record label and film production company.A division bench of Justice Prakash D Naik and Justice Nitin R Borkar accepted the submission that his writ plea had become infructuous due to development before magistrate court and allowed him to withdraw his plea. On Thursday, advocate Niranjan Mundargi representing Kumar told the high court that the Andheri Metropolitan Magistrate court accepted the closure report on November 9. TNN
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The Nagpur bench of Bombay high court rejects a man’s plea to overturn his life sentence for the rape of his minor daughter. The court emphasizes that a rape survivor’s testimony should not be dismissed based on delay, acknowledging the societal challenges people face in reporting child sexual abuse. Despite the FIR being lodged five days after the crime, the court recognizes the circumstances of the case involving rape by the girl’s father. The convict challenges the verdict, arguing that the girl’s mother and sister did not support her accusation.
