Indian police said Monday they have
arrested the Bollywood director Mahmood
Farooqui after an American woman
accused him of rape.
Farooqui ,best known for co-directing the
2010 satire "Peepli live" about farmers
suicides ,was taken to custody in New
Delhi on Saturday after the alleged victim
went to the police
Police spokesman Rajan Bhagat said
the woman ,a US citizen aged 30 was
visiting India at the time of the alleged
attack at Farooqui's home in the capital.
Based on her complaint, the accused
has been arrested and sent to judicial
custody he said."Peepli live"which
explores the divide between urban and
rural India ,was produced by Bollywood
superstar Amir Khan.
Farooqui co-directed with his wife Anusha
Rizwi ,who on Sunday dismissed the
complaint against her husband as manipulated
and false,
"We are determined to fight this till the
reality is presented before the people ",
she said in a statement,
The alleged attack occurred in March but
the woman returned to the US shortly
afterwards and only reported it n Friday
,news reports and a police source said.
No one at the US embassy was immediately
available for comment,India introduced
tough laws against sex offenders in the
wake of the fatal gang -rape of a Delhi
student in the capital in December 2012
that sparked mass street protests
But high levels of sexual violence against
women continued,AFP
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