Mumbai Police summons Kangana Ranaut in Javed Akthar defamation case

Mumbai, Jan 20: The Mumbai police has summoned actor Kangana Ranaut in connection with a defamation case filed against her by veteran writer and lyricist, Javed Akhtar.

She has been asked to appear before the Juhu police on Friday, a police officer quoted by PTI said. In November last year, Akhtar had filed a defamation case against Ranaut for making baseless allegations before the Andheri Metropolitan Magistrate in television interviews. He sought action against her under the relevant sections of the IPC.

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She had said in the interview that Akhtar had threatened her to withdraw the case against Hrithik Roshan.

Akhtar said that she had dragged his name while referring to a coterie that exists in Bollywood.