Mumbai, The rape case against Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja will be tried in a fast-track court, Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan announced here Friday, while the National Commission of Women (NCW) said that medical reports proved rape.
Chavan said the formalities to transfer the case to a fast-track court would be completed soon.
“As per the state government’s policy in such matters, we shall provide full financial assistance and all other support to enable the victim rehabilitate herself,” the chief minister said.
The actor’s teenaged domestic help Sunday lodged a complaint with police that he had raped her. He was arrested and at the end of police custody Thursday was sent to judicial custody till July 2.
Shiney is now lodged in the Arthur Road Jail in south Mumbai.
A three-member NCW team met the victim, the actor’s wife Anupam who has strongly defended him, police and investigating officials and senior state government officials, commission chairperson Girija Vyas told reporters here.
“Medical evidences and other records we have seen confirm that the victim has been raped. Now, the law will take its own course,” she said.
Vyas, who earlier Friday demanded that the case be transferred to a fast-track court, said that even Chief Minister Chavan had expressed his concern over the issue, especially since it involved a prominent Bollywood personality.
Vyas said that transferring the case to a fast-track court was necessary in the interest of quick justice to both parties.
“Moreover, in such cases, prolonged trial could lead to the victim and witnesses being influenced or pressurised,” Vyas pointed out.
She said that if quick justice can be rendered through a fast-track court, it would be good for the victim and also for the accused if he is proved innocent.
The victim’s parents, who live in Kokbaan village in neighbouring Raigad district, arrived in the city Friday morning and met the NCW team in south Mumbai.
Shiney has been booked under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 376 (rape), 346 (wrongful restraint) and 506 (threat to kill), among others.
The 35-year-old actor has starred in movies like “Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi”, “Gangster”, “Karam”, “Woh Lamhe”, “Fanaa”, “Hijack”, “Life In A Metro”, and “Bhool Bhulaiyya” among others.
He has bagged over half a dozen awards for his movies in the past six years of acting career.
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He know he is guilty as charge. so stop wasting the court time.The innocient worker has been used and abused for his lusts and desires.I know many in India have been abused daily ,who have never gone boldly to the police or the police has just brushed them away.I am glad that the police in that parts of the world showing for a change true grit justice and honesty prevails and justice is for the all in all human equalities, I am sorry i speak my mind may hurt.I feel for the Our human rights victums concerned.There is no space for the popular ,Rich or others in the law of justice.Indian Police must fully justisfiy by the constituation law and full justify by all concerned and invistigate on all even technicalities, to give justification to the poor concerned victim with full help.People come to work and not to get abused beaten,raped or child labour
How would we know he’s guilty……Only he,the victim or God knows the truth….what if the girl is not telling the truth…..then
Nick, how do you know that he know(s) he is guilty as charge? Like Tina says, “what if the girl is not telling the truth…” I am not saying that the girl is not telling the truth. He is innocent until proven guilty. Well, if he is found guilty beyond any reasonable doubt, then give him the maximum punishment under the law. Regardless, what is the outcome, rape or no rape, consensual or not, he is wrong because he is a married man.