New Delhi: Veteran actor Jeetendra has been accused by one of his cousins of sexually assaulting her at a hotel in Shimla during the shooting of a film 47 years ago.
The woman, whose name has been withheld, has written a letter to the DGP of Himachal Pradesh, seeking the registration of an FIR.
Jeetendra’s lawyer Rizwan Siddiquee has denied the allegations and said the baseless, ridiculous and fabricated claims have been made to defame the actor with a personal agenda. He also said the charges cannot be entertained by any court of law or law enforcement agencies after a span of almost 50 years.
In the letter, the woman said that the alleged abuse took place in January 1971, when the actor was 28 and had just stepped into showbiz.
She said that she had just turned 18 and Jeetendra, without informing her, took her father's permission to take her to visit his film's set, where he sexually assaulted her. She claimed that before this, Jeetendra had never spoken to her about her films and the two were not friendly.
The letter describes the alleged act of sexual assault in detail. She stated that Jeetendra picked her up from her home on the fateful day and there were two other men in the car apart from him.
The complainant stated that when they reached Shimla, it was night time and she and Jeetendra were to share a room that had two separate beds. While she went to sleep in the bed facing a wall in the far corner of the room, the actor went out.
“Later that night, he returned to the room and joined the two beds together, while I was still asleep. As I rested on my side, facing the wall, he entered the bed and mounted me from behind with his penis erect,” she wrote in the letter, adding that Jeetendra “smelled of alcohol and was naked from waist down.”
She further alleged that the actor stimulated himself against her body and when she tried to push him away, he insisted that this is how he sleeps. She stated that after the ordeal ended, Jeetendra separated the beds and the two did not speak after that.
“The next day, he asked his driver to buy me some clothes and drop me back to New Delhi,” she wrote in the letter. She said that it took her years to share her trauma, and she finally decided to file a police complaint after the demise of her parents.
The actor’s lawyer, Siddiquee, said he “wants to make it specifically clear that the law does not give any person any rights or liberties of making any baseless, ridiculous or fabricated claims against any man publicly and seek to defame him with a hidden personal agenda.”
“In any event the timing of this baseless complaint seems to be nothing but a miserable effort made by a jealous competitor to disrupt the business activities of my client and his esteemed company. Such efforts are therefore in all fairness treated with the contempt it truly deserves,” he added.
Here is the letter written by the complainant:
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