While granting bail to the accused, Judicial Magistrate observed that the driver’s relationship with the actress was of intimate nature. She then added that it prima facie seems to be an attempt to gain media attention for better TV ratings

 

Ram Parmar (MUMBAI MIRROR; July 31, 2011)

 

A TV actress’ bid to get better TRP ratings for her show and get rid of her driver cum boyfriend by claiming that he molested her fell flat on Saturday when Thane Sessions Court granted bail to the accused and held that prima facie there is no evidence to support her claims.

On Thursday night, Ekta Tiwari, 28, who plays the lead, Radha, in TV show Tere Mere Sapne filed a sexual assault complaint against her driver Sajid Syed, 25, with the Navghar (Bhayander E) Police Station. Next day, Syed surrendered before the police and was then presented before Judicial Magistrate A G Das at Thane Sessions Court on Saturday.

During the Saturday’s bail hearing, defense counsel Edgar Braganza contended before the magistrate that Tiwari and Syed were in a relationship and both had even recently visited Tiwari’s native place in Dewas, Madhya Pradesh to meet her parents, for a possible wedding. He presented a record of 518 text messages exchanged between the two as proof.

He contended that when Tiwari was admitted in the Riddhi Siddhi Hospital, Mira Road from June 19 to June 22 for treatment of a throat infection, it was Syed who signed all the consent documents during her stay in the hospital. The defense More >