Bollywood’s Nora Fatehi has filed a defamation case in opposition to fellow actor Jacqueline Fernandez earlier than a Delhi courtroom, in keeping with Indian media, because the Canadian-Moroccan actor believes Fernandez made defamatory statements with a purpose to destroy her profession. Each actors have been questioned in a cash laundering case filed in opposition to supposed conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar.
Based on The Indian Specific, Fatehi’s plea stated that the Ram Setu actor “made defamatory imputations” resulting from malicious causes with an intent of “destroying her career to further her own interests.” The plea additionally included media homes that printed the main points about Fatehi’s reference to the extortion case.
The publication stated that Fatehi’s plea included Fernandez’s written assertion the place she had stated that she was “falsely implicated by ED while celebs such as Nora Fatehi who had received gifts from Conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar had been made witnesses.”
“Jacqueline Fernandez sought to criminally defame the complainant in order to destroy her career to further her own interests, since they are both working in the same industry and have similar backgrounds, amongst other reasons,” Fatehi’s plea learn.
The petition claimed that Fatehi misplaced out on numerous alternatives similar to a Dubai-based live performance and 10 metropolis excursions within the US and Canada after the allegations made by Fernandez. It talked about that she needed to renegotiate a settlement with a model at 50 per cent of her authentic charges.
So far as the claims by Fernandez are involved, Fatehi denied receiving any items from the alleged conman and stated the one time she had ever spoken to him was when his spouse made her communicate to him over the cellphone at an occasion.
Within the plea, she acknowledged an iPhone and a purse from Gucci that she obtained as items from Chandrashekhar’s spouse, Leena. A couple of luxurious automobile, Fatehi stated {that a} fee was made for guiding a film and it was her brother-in-law who was approached by Chandrashekhar, as an alternative of her.
A Delhi courtroom was resulting from hear arguments on costs in opposition to Fernandez however adjourned the listening to to December 20.
