New Delhi, July 30
Delhi's Saket court on Saturday held Mahmood Farooqui, the co-director director of the 2010 movie ‘Peepli Live’, guilty of raping a US researcher in 2015.
The court will hear arguments for his sentence from August 2. Farooqui, who was on bail, was arrested soon after the verdict.
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A 30-year-old American researcher from Columbia University who came to India for her thesis claimed a drunk Farooqui had raped her at his house in Sukhdev Vihar in south Delhi on March 28 when she had gone to him for help with her research.
Rape attracts a minimum sentence of seven years and a maximum of a life term.
Delhi Police arrested Farooqui last year after the woman complained.
On June 29, a police filed a charge sheet against the filmmaker. — Agencies
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