Anita Raj’s troubled husband arrested on molestation charges
Khar Police arrest Sunil Hingorani following complaints by female members of his Pali Hill housing society; Bandra court lets him off on bail of Rs 5,000
Posted On Sunday, June 10, 2012 at 02:30:00 AM
Controversies continue to dog Sunil Hingorani, better known as yesteryear actress Anita Raj’s husband. After a complaint at the Khar Police Station and Economic Offences Wing by once close friend Kamal Amrohi in November that Hingorani failed to return Rs 1.07 crore he had borrowed for a restaurant in Juhu, the Pali Hill resident has now been charged with equally grave offences such as outraging modesty of women, criminal intimidation and criminal trespass. And in this case the complaints come from Hingorani’s neighbours at Nibbana Annexe building.
In fact, Hingorani - members of the housing society say he has siphoned around Rs 1 crore from the society funds and also owes the society Rs 3 lakhs - was arrested by police on the basis of these charges on Friday morning and released on bail by the Bandra Metropolitan Magistrate Court later in the day. Speaking about the charges a member of the housing society, refusing to be identified, said, Hingorani who used to be an office bearer in the society was removed from the post in December 2011 following the allegations of corruption. The member added that in May Hingorani landed up at the house of another member of the managing committee and verbally abused her. He later corresponded with the woman’s husband over email in which too he abused her. Mumbai Mirror has copies of these emails. While the complaint, with the Khar police and the National Commission for Women (NCW), was registered four weeks ago action was taken on Friday after the police completed its investigations. According to the complaint lodged at the police station, on May 1 around midnight Hingorani landed up at the doorstep of the female member of the society after breaking the notice board of the society placed in the lobby. The notice board had details of the outstanding amount that Hingorani owed to the society. At the member’s house he allegedly hurled abuses at her. “He threatened to rape her and used unwarranted language, based on that we took the complaint and initiated action,” said Senior Police Inspector Mangesh Pote. Pote confirmed that there have been several other such complaints against Hingorani from residents of the building. Members spoke to Mumbai Mirror on condition of anonymity and even shared details of e-mails and messages that Hingorani had sent them. Another resident said Hingorani sent him lewd and rude messages regarding his daughter. The man added that Hingorani even sent a similar, lewd, email to his daughter. He has also been charged with abusing a senior citizen in the building. The building secretary M K Gupta said, “We have also approached Home Minister R R Patil complaining about Hingorani. His behaviour has crossed all limits of civility and as a society we are using the law to help us.” Pote said, “We have seized his phone and sent it to a technical expert to retrieve old messages. We have also implicated him under relevant section of the Information Technology Act - being section 67. We have also booked him under sections 509 (molestation), 451 (house trespass), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 427 (mischief and causing damage) of the Indian Penal Code. He has now been released on bail of Rs 5,000. He has to mark his presence at the police station every Monday between 10 am-12 pm.” Neither Hingorani nor Anita Raj responded to Mumbai Mirror’s calls and repeated text messages. |
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