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Mahmood Farooqui, popularly known as co-director and scriptwriter of 2010 popular film Peepli Live was arrested by Delhi police on June 20, 2015, of rape charges. Following the case, the director has been convicted of rape by Delhi’s Saket Court.

The director has been convicted on charges of raping an American woman in New Delhi. A Delhi Police official told IANS, “A 35-year-old American national woman was raped by the co-director of the film Peepli Live”.

The alleged incident took place on March 28, 2015. The 30-year-old research scholar alleged in her complaint that Mahmood Farooqui raped her in March 2015 during a party at his rented house in Sukhdev Vihar locality where two other persons including a journalist were present. Reportedly, according to her police complaint, the woman stayed back after the party while others had left and that is when Farooqui sexually assaulted her.

Farooqui’s wife Anusha Rizvi, who also co-directed Peepli Live with him, had denied all the allegations but well, the truth is out and he is convicted.

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