Nana Patekar’s big relief in ‘Me Too’ case, court rejected Tanushree Dutta’s petition

A Mumbai court has dismissed Tanushree Dutta’s petition in which he/she challenged the decision to stop the investigation of the case against his/her co-star Nana Patekar. Let us know that this matter is related to the MeToo charge made by Tanushree on Nana Patekar in the year 2018. The Mumbai Police had closed the ongoing investigation against Nana Patekar after which Tanushree filed a petition in the court against it. The court said that the complaint was filed after the time limit and Tanushree had not given any reason for that delay. In his/her complaint lodged in October that year, Dutta accused Patekar and three others of molesting and abusing him/her during the shooting of a song on the set of the film ‘Horn Ok Please’ in 2008. The police filed their final report before the Magistrate Court in 2019, stating that nothing objectionable against any accused was found in his/her investigation.

Nothing objectionable against any accused in investigation

The police said in its report that the FIR was found to be false during the investigation. The police filed their final report before a magistrate court in 2019, stating that his/her investigation did not find anything objectionable against any accused. The police further said in its report that the FIR was found to be false. Such a report in legal terms is called ‘B-summer’.

Tanushree urged the court to dismiss the B-Samari

At that time, Dutta filed a petition against the police report, urging the court to dismiss the B-Samari. he/she had requested the court to order further inquiry into his/her complaint. Judicial Magistrate First Class (Andheri) NV Bansal said that Dutta had filed an FIR in 2018 under Section 354 and 509 of the Indian Penal Code for an alleged incident on 23 March 2008. The magistrate said that according to the rules of the Criminal Procedure Code (CRPC), the limit of both crimes is three years. The court said that the purpose of determining the limit period is to put pressure on criminal prosecution to make every effort to detect the crime and ensure the punishment as soon as possible.

‘No application has been filed for delayed waiver’

The order states that no application has been filed for forgiveness of delay by the prosecution or informer to explain the causes of the delay. The magistrate said that there is no reason to take cognizance in front of me after more than 7 years after the end of the boundary period. The magistrate said, “If such a huge delay is forgiven without any sufficient reason, it will be against the principle of equality and the true sense of law.”

What was the whole matter

Tanushree Dutta accused Nana Patekar of sexual harassment during the shooting of the film ‘Horn Ok Please’ in 2008. he/she lodged an FIR against Nana Patekar at Oshivara police station in October 2018. After this, many women started telling cases of sexual harassment on social media with ‘MeToo’ hashtag and felt as if the storm of such allegations had arisen. In India it was called the ‘MeToo’ movement.

Police filed a closure report after this

Explain that the investigating officer did not find anything objectionable in this whole case and according to the report he/she found FIR false. In this case, the police then filed a closure report, stating that no evidence has been found against the accused. Not only this, this complaint against Nana was told to be false. Finally, Tanushree Dutta filed a petition against it on 5 December 2019. he/she then demanded a re -investigation and legal action.