#MeToo: Court rejects injunction plea of Alok Nath''s wife against Vinta Nanda

Shiv Kumar

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Tribune News Service

Mumbai, October 26

Veteran actor Alok Nath, who was accused by film-maker Vinta Nanda of sexually assaulting her 19 years ago, on Friday failed to get a court order stopping the latter from speaking to the media.

Alok Nath, through his wife Ashu Singh, had moved the City Civil Court here seeking a restraining order against Vinta Nanda from making further statements about her claim to online, print and television media.

Nanda's advocate, Dhruti Kapadia said in a statement that the court had refused to grant any interim relief to the plaintiff who had sought an injunction against her client. The matter will come up for
hearing before the court in due course, Kapadia added.

Sessions Judge S U Baghele noted that neither Singh nor Nath appeared to have been defamed by Nanda's Facebook post on October 8. Both of them had filed a defamation suit against Nanda seeking damages of one rupee in addition to a gag order.

Though Alok Nath was named in the Facebook post, the reference to a 'Sanskari' actor led to fingers being pointed out to the actor.

Subsequently, Nanda filed a criminal complaint against Alok Nath.

Advocate Ashok Saraogi, who represented Alok Nath and Ashu Singh, earlier told the court that Nanda had made up the story of being raped in order to gain publicity. He also wanted to know why Nanda kept quiet for nearly two decades and did not even approach the police but chose to write about the incident on Facebook at this stage.