Mumbai, April 09: Bollywood actor Salman Khan received a sigh of relief on Thursday after a female fan withdrew a petition seeking investigation against him.
Phool Banoo Bakshi Ilahi, a paraplegic, had alleged that Salman, along with producer Vijay Gilani, had misused her photographs for publicity of their film Veer.
A division bench of justice DB Bhosale and justice AR Joshi refused to accept the submissions made by the petitioners and declined giving any relief. “What is the defamation in this?” remarked the court.
Phool Banoo was aggrieved as her photo was printed by a local tabloid with a caption, saying she had received a donation of Rs1 lakh from the actor. But the court refused to buy the arguments by her lawyer. “The article was not written by Salman Khan. You had gone on your own to meet him. Nobody had asked you to go,” remarked the court.
Her petition claimed that she had visited the actor’s residence in Bandra in April 2009. “Salman finally met us at Mehboob Studio where he was shooting for Veer,” says the petition. Phool Banoo then claimed that Salman also posed for a photo with her, which was published in the paper.
–Agencies–