Saif Ali Khan’s resort brawl case: Amrita Arora testifies, says NRI businessman ‘threatened with dire penalties’ | Hindi Film Information
Bollywood actor Amrita Arora Ladak appeared as a witness earlier than a court docket on Saturday within the case involving Saif Ali Khan, who was accused of assaulting an NRI businessman and his father-in-law at a five-star resort in 2012.
Based on PTI, Amrita, who was a part of the dinner group with Khan on February 22, 2012, testified that the resort had supplied them with a separate enclosure the place they have been having fun with their meal.
She acknowledged that the complainant abruptly entered their house and started shouting and hurling abuses at them.
“We noticed somebody barging into our enclosure and, in a really loud, aggressive voice, instructed us to close up and preserve quiet. All of us received shocked at what was taking place,” she mentioned, including that Khan instantly stood up and apologised.
The person then left and so they continued with their dinner, she mentioned.
After some time, when Khan excused himself to go to the washroom, they heard loud voices, considered one of them being that of the Bollywood actor, Ladak instructed the court docket.
Moments later, they noticed the person barging into their enclosure and hitting Khan, Ladak deposed.
Everybody then intervened and separated the 2. That is when the person began abusing them and threatening them with “dire penalties”, she added.
Khan was with Kareena Kapoor, her sister Karishma, Malaika Arora Khan, Amrita Arora Ladak and some male mates on the resort when the brawl broke out with NRI businessman Iqbal Sharma.
Based on police, when Sharma protested the raucous chatter of the actor and his mates, Saif allegedly threatened him and subsequently punched Sharma within the nostril, fracturing it.
The NRI businessman additionally accused Saif and his mates of hitting his father-in-law Raman Patel.
Nonetheless, Saif had maintained that Sharma made provocative statements or relatively used abusive language towards girls with him and this led to the ruckus.
Saif and his two mates – Shakeel Ladak and Bilal Amrohi – have been charge-sheeted beneath part 325 (assault) of the Indian Penal Code.
