KKR owner Shah Rukh Khan gets clean chit in Wankhede brawl case
Dec 23, 2018 at 10:58 AM
Bollywood superstar and the principal owner of IPL franchise Kolkata Knight Riders, Shah Rukh Khan can heave a sigh of relief after Mumbai Police has told a metropolitan magistrate’s court that the actor did not create any nuisance before minors at the Wankhede Stadium in 2012.
“After the investigation, it was found that no cognisable offence had taken place,” said a police report filed in the court recently.
A social worker, Amit Maru had gone before the Maharashtra State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (MSCPCR) and accused the actor of using questionable language in front of minors. Following that, the MSCPCR directed Mumbai Police to register a FIR against the actor.
However, the Mumbai Police did not lodge any FIR against the actor which made the complainant file a petition before the esplanade magistrate court in Mumbai. The Marine Drive Police station was given the responsibility of investigating the matter. Following that, Vilasrao Deshmukh, the then Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) president had banned the actor from entering the Wankhede stadium for five years
Shah Rukh’s lawyer Aditya Pratap said, “Even the MSCPCR had gone through the case and ordered registration of FIR. A clear case under the Juvenile Justice Act is made out when someone uses abusive language before children. The job of the police was to do a fair inquiry and not be under the influence of certain people.”
Commenting on the report filed by the Mumbai Police in September, Pratap said, “The matter is currently sub juice, but we will surely file a protest petition against this inquiry report which has just come to us during the next date of hearing in court.”
Meanwhile, the actor had denied the allegations in a statement that was registered in June this year. He said that after his team Kolkata Knight Riders won the match that day, his children and their friends entered the ground and the security guard Vikas Dalvi asked them to leave. After that, the actor told the guard that the children were with him, and nobody should touch them.
He claimed that he lost his temper only after he heard someone using abusive language but before that he had already instructed his business manager to escort the children out of the ground.