Karan Oberoi says he has been ‘falsely implicated’ in rape case as the actor-singer moves Bombay High Court for bail

Television actor Karan Oberoi, arrested on charges of raping and blackmailing a woman, has approached the Bombay High Court for bail after a sessions court rejected his plea for relief earlier this month. 

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The lower court had rejected Oberoi's plea noting that investigation into the case was incomplete, and hence it would be incorrect to release the accused on bail. 

In his petition filed in the HC Monday through advocate Dinesh Tiwari, Oberoi claimed he was falsely implicated in the case, and that it was a consensual relationship between him and the woman. 

The 40-year-old, who has acted in television serials and appeared in commercials, was arrested earlier this month after the woman, who was in a relationship with him since 2016, lodged a complaint with Oshiwara police alleging that Oberoi had raped her on the pretext of marriage. 

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She also alleged that Oberoi shot some objectionable videos of her and demanded money while threatening to release these clips. 

The HC is likely to take up Oberoi's petition for hearing next week. 

Oberoi had been sent to a 14-day judicial custody, by a magistrate court on May 8. His lawyer Dinesh Tiwari stated that the police's demand for police custody was rejected after his arguments about the 'fake case' and he was then sent to a judicial custody. 

Oberoi’s lawyer has denied the accusations made against him by saying they were false and made with an intention to defame him. 

In a statement, said, “Allegations are false. We are taking the necessary steps to undo the damage that has been done and expose the person behind it.”  

He added, “Both of them initially had a casual chat but later, the woman started pressing Oberoi for various reasons. In order to extort money from him, she threatened to lodge a police complaint against him to defame him. When he refused to comply, the woman approached the police and registered a case on the basis of baseless allegations, after which Oberoi too approached the police and gave his statement.” 

Several of Oberoi’s celebrity friends including Pooja Bedi and members of A Band of Boys, Sherrin Varghese, Chin2 Bhosle and Sudhanshu Pandey had come out in his support by conducting a press conference.  

While the band members said he was most chivalrous among all of them and that they had never seen him behave inappropriately with a woman, Bedi had pointed out loopholes in the claims of the woman by even sharing some of their shared messages. 

(With inputs from PTI)